In a moment of desperation, Georgie uses the yellow rotary phone in the bedroom in which she grew up to call Neil, who finally answers. In a panic, Georgie tries to call Neil again from her cell phone, but he seems to be dodging her calls. For some reason, Georgie's mother is under the impression that she and Neil are getting a divorce.

Feeling anxious and uncertain about her marriage, Georgie takes a break to visit with her mother who also lives in Los Angeles. Stricken, she tries to call Neil back, but the call goes straight to voicemail. Georgie makes Neil promise to call her when he lands.Īfter parting with Neil, Georgie goes straight to work on the pilot script with Seth, missing the call she made him promise to make. While Neil is notoriously reserved when it comes to expressing emotion, Georgie can sense he is upset as he leaves with the girls for Omaha. Though immensely conflicted over the decision, Georgie ultimately decides to stay behind in Los Angeles to work on the pilot script rather than be with her family. Unfortunately, the deadline is in only a few days, and Georgie is supposed to accompany Neil and their daughters to Omaha to visit his mother over the holiday. A week before Christmas, Georgie and Seth finally have a chance to produce the pilot of their dreams. For his part, Seth resents the fact that Neil takes up too much of Georgie's time, presumably preventing her from becoming the writer she is destined to be. Georgie still dreams of producing a pilot she has been planning for years with her writing partner, Seth, with whom she has been best friends since college. Although Jeff'd Up pays the bills and allows her daughters to have comfortable lives, Georgie is deeply artistically unsatisfied with her work on the show. Her husband, Neil, stays at home to care for their two daughters while Georgie works. Georgie McCool is a successful thirty-seven-year-old sitcom writer on the hit television series Jeff'd Up. For Landline, Rowell received the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fiction Book of the Year. Though Rowell is known as a young adult fiction writer, most critics classify Landline as a novel for adults. Landline (2014), a science-fiction novel by American author Rainbow Rowell, concerns a woman in her late thirties who realizes she can call her husband's younger self through a landline.

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