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The Way Life Should Be by Baker-Kline, Christina is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Way Life Should Be about?

From the #1 *New York Times* bestselling author of *Orphan Train, **and the critically acclaimed author of Bird in Hand**, *comes a novel of love, risk, and self-discovery—includes a special PS section featuring insights, interviews, and more.Angela can feel the clock ticking. She is single in New York City, stuck in a job she doesn’t want and a life that seems to have, somehow, just happened. She inherited a flair for Italian cooking from her grandmother, but she never seems to have the time for it—these days, her oven holds only sweaters. Tacked to her office bulletin board is a photo from a magazine of a tidy cottage on the coast of Maine—a charming reminder of a life that could be hers, if she could only muster the courage to go after it.On a hope and a chance, Angela decides to pack it all up and move to Maine, finding the nudge she needs in the dating profile of a handsome sailor who loves dogs and Italian food. But her new home isn’t quite matching up with the fantasy. Far from everything familiar, Angela begins to rebuild her life from the ground up. Working at a local coffeehouse, she begins to discover the pleasures and secrets of her new small-town community and, in th

Who reads The Way Life Should Be?

It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Baker-Kline, Christina
Publisher
William Morrow & Co
Published
2007
Language
EN
ISBN
9780062363541
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Romance
Rating
3.58 / 5 (3,429 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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