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Annabel Monaghan

출생: January 14, 1970 – Los Angeles, California, United States

Annabel Monaghan is a novelist and essayist whose work spans contemporary romance, young adult fiction, and columns. She is known for Nora Goes Off Script, Same Time Next Summer, Summer Romance, and It’s a Love Story. A New York Times bestselling author, she is in the Library Reads Hall of Fame, and her novels have been translated into 21 languages.

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Annabel Monaghan’s career joins an unusually broad set of experiences: she grew up in Los Angeles, studied English at Duke University, earned an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School, and worked briefly as an investment banker before turning fully toward writing. That early pivot mattered. It moved her from Wall Street into a body of work shaped by observation, comic timing, and close attention to ordinary domestic life. Before becoming widely known for adult fiction, she published the young adult novels A Girl Named Digit and Double Digit and released Does This Volvo Make My Butt Look Big?, an essay collection drawn from her columns and pieces for The Huffington Post, The Week, and The Rye Record. ((https://www.ryelibrary.org/main/wp-content/uploads/RFRR-2021-Annual-Report.pdf?utm_source=openai))

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That's just so many teeth
-My kids have too many teeth
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My philosophy has always been that there's no room in the holiday card for reality
-My family's holiday card is a total sham
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I know what the City Mice think about us
-The suburbs are not as lame as you think
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We always help our children first
-Memo to moms: Put yourself first
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How can I explain to him that, though the pajamas are the same, the mess is a totally new, fresh mess?
-An open letter to my husband: Don't ask me what I'm up to today
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I simply explained to my teenage kids that these people are a bunch of astronauts
-If I'm looking at you funny, it's because I secretly suspect you're an astronaut
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I realized that money isn't easy to get
-This just in: My kid got a job!
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I haven't breathed since I left the house
-Terrifying tales from mammogram day

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"Poignant, funny, and bingeable, Annabel Monaghan writes five star reads"

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"Annabel Monaghan has joined my shortlist of instant autobuy authors"

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"Annabel Monaghan knows how to write romance"

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"Annabel Monaghan is known for her breezy but substantive novels"

Elle

"Annabel Monaghan's writing is smart, snappy and satisfying"

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"Bestselling author Annabel Monaghan is known for her heartfelt books—and her new one is packed with humor and hope"

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"Annabel Monaghan has had my heart in her clutches since she wrote Nora Goes Off Script"

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