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The Roughest Draft

By: Emily Wibberley, Austin Siegemund-Broka
Narrated by: Dan Bittner, Imani Jade Powers
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Summary

Sometimes the best love stories start with The Roughest Draft....

Three years ago, Katrina Freeling and Nathan Van Huysen were the brightest literary stars on the horizon, their cowritten book topping bestseller lists. But on the heels of their greatest success, they ended their partnership on bad terms. They haven't spoken since, and never planned to, except they have one final book due on contract.

Forced to reunite they hole up in the tiny Florida town where they wrote their previous book, trying to finish a new manuscript quickly and painlessly. Working through the reasons they've hated each other for the past three years isn't easy, especially not while writing a romantic novel.

While passion and prose push them closer together in the Florida heat, Katrina and Nathan will learn that relationships, like writing, sometimes take a few rough drafts before they get it right.

Achingly romantic, The Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka is an intimate will-they-won't-they love story.
©2022 Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka (P)2022 Macmillan Publishers International Limited
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This novel is that rare piece of writing that needs no editing, haunts your sleep, and leaves you wishing it was longer when you turn the last page. (Jodi Picoult, author of Wish You Were Here)
Reading Wibberley and Siegemund-Broka’s prose is like sliding into the crisp sheets of a luxury hotel bed. (Alicia Thompson, bestselling author of Love in the Time of Serial Killers)
Searingly insightful and achingly romantic . . . sure to delight and fascinate. (Sarah Grunder Ruiz, author of Love, Lists, and Fancy Ships)

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So hard to finish

The story was not good, and in a very slow paste.
I almost didn’t finish it

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A sparkling love story

Beautiful love story with great visual writing and Amazing narration . I listen enthralled. l read the book first and I loved it. I was hoping the narration would be good and I was not disappointed. It was sublime. listen 🎶

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Slow Going

This may have been easier to read than listen to, but the story was too slow.

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It just didn’t grab me. I wasn’t keen and struggled to finish. Not for me.

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