Introducing Back After This by Linda Holmes

The Audacious Book Club March selection

Mar 03, 2025

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The cover for the novel Back After This, which is a bright blue and features across the bottom, several squiggly lines in a darker blue over which the title, in white letters is superimposed. Just above the title is a white woman with shoulder length brown hair, carrying a large bag bursting with items, walking after a large gray and white dog.

In the beginning of Evvie Drake Starts Over, Linda Holmes’ 2019 debut, it’s four in the morning, and the protagonist is lying awake on the floor of the small apartment at the back of her house because she’s had a dream about her husband Tim again. Evvie Drake is a widow—Tim died in a car accident—and she’s stuck in the house, unable to break out of her …

The Audacity.

Introducing Back After This by Linda Holmes

The Audacious Book Club March selection

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