Lola Isn't Home Right Now: A Novel
Lexa Hillyer
Mar 2027 · Simon and Schuster
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For fans of 13 Going on 30 and Rebecca Serle’s In Five Years, a tender and transformative novel that pairs a twist of fate with one woman's questions about the life she chose—and the one she didn’t.
It’s the week before Lola Cooper’s fortieth birthday, and she’s missing her best friend Rachel more than ever. Rachel died years ago, and Lola, a stay-at-home mom, is on the brink of a midlife crisis. She’s so busy juggling the demands of three kids, a sweet but oblivious husband, and a teetering, half-finished house renovation that she doesn't know who she is anymore. When she attends a dinner party with old friends who all seem to have found success in ways she hasn’t, she finds herself asking the universe the age-old question: What if? What if she’d never become a wife and mother? What if she’d followed the other path?
When Lola wakes up the next morning with a confused hangover after a blurry cab ride home, she discovers that her question has been answered and she has been inexplicably delivered into a glimpse of another life. This alternate reality is full of career success, a beautiful home, and total freedom—no husband or kids in sight. Most miraculous of all? In this life, Rachel is still alive.
In the tradition of Emma Straub’s This Time Tomorrow and Holly Gramazio’s The Husbands, Lola Isn’t Home Right Now explores the crossroads between fate and choice, and how, by making peace with the past, we can finally move forward into the endless possibilities of the present.
It’s the week before Lola Cooper’s fortieth birthday, and she’s missing her best friend Rachel more than ever. Rachel died years ago, and Lola, a stay-at-home mom, is on the brink of a midlife crisis. She’s so busy juggling the demands of three kids, a sweet but oblivious husband, and a teetering, half-finished house renovation that she doesn't know who she is anymore. When she attends a dinner party with old friends who all seem to have found success in ways she hasn’t, she finds herself asking the universe the age-old question: What if? What if she’d never become a wife and mother? What if she’d followed the other path?
When Lola wakes up the next morning with a confused hangover after a blurry cab ride home, she discovers that her question has been answered and she has been inexplicably delivered into a glimpse of another life. This alternate reality is full of career success, a beautiful home, and total freedom—no husband or kids in sight. Most miraculous of all? In this life, Rachel is still alive.
In the tradition of Emma Straub’s This Time Tomorrow and Holly Gramazio’s The Husbands, Lola Isn’t Home Right Now explores the crossroads between fate and choice, and how, by making peace with the past, we can finally move forward into the endless possibilities of the present.
For fans of 13 Going on 30 and Rebecca Serle’s In Five Years, a tender and transformative novel that pairs a twist of fate with one woman's questions about the life she chose—and the one she didn’t.
It’s the week before Lola Cooper’s fortieth birthday, and she’s missing her best friend Rachel mo...
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About the author
Lexa Hillyer has spent the past twenty years shaping and launching hundreds of books as an author, editor, ghostwriter, and book doctor. She is the YA author of Frozen Beauty, Proof of Forever, and the Spindle Fire duology. She also wrote the multiple award-winning poetry collection Acquainted with the Cold. Lola Isn’t Home Right Now is her debut adult novel. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, daughter, and several citrus trees. Find her on Instagram @ProofOfLex.
Lexa Hillyer has spent the past twenty years shaping and launching hundreds of books as an author, editor, ghostwriter, and book doctor. She is the YA author of Frozen Beauty, Proof of Forever, and the Spindle Fire duology. She also wrote the multiple award-winning poetry collection Acquainted wi...
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