Back After This

To know Linda Holmes—whether through her work at NPR as a correspondent and host of the “Pop Culture Happy Hour” podcast or as the author of warm-hearted, chatty novels Evvie Drake Starts Over and Flying Solo—is to love Linda Holmes. Her third novel, Back After This, is a delightful combination of her two fields: a romance novel following podcast producer Cecily Foster, who reluctantly becomes the star of a blind dating podcast. To make matters even worse, she just met a really nice guy . . .