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Ashley Poston

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A New York Times Notable Book of 2022! The New York Times Bestseller and Good Morning America Book Club Pick!

“I LOVED this book! ...Funny, breathtaking, hopeful, and dreamy.” —Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis.

A disillusioned millennial ghostwriter who, quite literally, has some ghosts of her own, has to find her way back home in this sparkling adult debut from national bestselling author Ashley Poston.

Florence Day is the ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem—after a terrible breakup, she no longer believes in love. It’s as good as dead. When her new editor, a too-handsome mountain of a man, won't give her an extension on her book deadline, Florence prepares to kiss her career goodbye. But then she gets a phone call she never wanted to receive, and she must return home for the first time in a decade to help her family bury her beloved father.

For ten years, she's run from the town that never understood her, and even though she misses the sound of a warm Southern night and her eccentric, loving family and their funeral parlor, she can’t bring herself to stay. Even with her father gone, it feels like nothing in this town has changed. And she hates it.

Until she finds a ghost standing at the funeral parlor’s front door, just as broad and infuriatingly handsome as ever, and he’s just as confused about why he’s there as she is.

Romance is most certainly dead . . . but so is her new editor, and his unfinished business will have her second-guessing everything she’s ever known about love stories.

"One of the Summer's Hottest Reads" —Entertainment Weekly

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The Someday Garden was one of my most anticipated reads of the year and it absolutely lived up to my expectations, nay, exceeded them. Ashley Poston's magical realism is one of my favorite things and I'm having a hard time liking any book I've read since this one.

The character setup is exceptional. The reader learns about each character's backstory while they develop throughout the plot, giving the little dopamine hit that comes with uncovering a plot twist in a thriller. @heyashposton does a great job of revealing the events that brought Sophie, Oliver, and Cyrus back to Lilymoor House while keeping the book in a singular timeline.

Emotionally, this book tore right to my core. I only cry at a handful of books each year (I think my 2026 total is 2-3 as of July) and this was one of them. I know this is technically a contemporary romance, and I loved that element of it, but the real impact of this book came from the emotional connections between Sophie and Harrie, her mom, Rus, and several of the incredible side characters.

5 stars is not enough.

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Thank you to @berkleypub and @netgalley for the free eARC. All thoughts and opinions are my own

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