Is She Really Going Out with Him?

Anna Appleby has settled into a content space following her divorce—she’s raising two great kids, has a cat and a house she loves, and writes a column for a local magazine. When the magazine’s new investor wants more emotion in her columns, Anna is desperate to figure something out, especially since Will Havers, her younger, ambitious, and annoying colleague, is ready to swoop in to steal her spot. As a last-ditch effort, Anna pitches a column about going on dates selected by her children. Not only is the idea given the green light, but Will pitches his own companion column about online dating. Anna soon finds herself dating neighbors, postmen, waiters, and parents of her children’s school friends and also spending more time with Will to work on their linked columns. While the dates are going nowhere, her irritation with Will seems to be turning into attraction. As she works to make herself more vulnerable on the page and in her life, Anna finds her outlook on the future to be changing as well.