What Nora Knew

Praise for WHAT NORA KNEW

“A roller-coaster romp about a writer careening through love and work in Manhattan as she nears 40..Ephron’s influence is felt everywhere in this novel, from Sleepless in Seattle references to the emphasis on the need to make grand gestures…Any woman in the heroine’s age range who’s lived in New York will both laugh and wince at the accuracy of Yellin’s details. Those who want to live in New York can hang on for a fun ride.”

-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"Hilarious. Unexpected. Knife-in-the-Side Sharp. What Nora Knew made me laugh from page one, and close the book with a happy sigh. Somewhere, surely, Nora Ephron is smiling."

—JENNY FIELDS

"Like a luscious cappuccino, What Nora Knew offers the perfect balance of substance and froth in a tribute to two great Noras, Ephron and Charles. With madcap humor—“Her motto was ‘behind every silver cloud there’s a pogrom’”—author Linda Yellin answers the age-old question, how can I recognize forever-love?"

—SALLY KOSLOW

"Reading Linda Yellin is like spending much-needed time with your funniest, dearest friend. What Nora Knew is hilarious and full of heart. I loved it."

—MIA MARCH/MELISSA SENATE

"As romantic and fun as "When Harry Met Sally" or "Sleepless in Seattle", Linda Yellin's hilarious, heartfelt novel is an urban fairytale of sophisticated humor and touching charm. (And I loved the ending - sniff sniff.) Pick it up and you won't be able to put it down."

—AMANDA ROBB

“Linda Yellin’s feisty heroine Molly Hallberg is sassy, cynical, irreverent and hysterically funny. With a wounded heart and gimlet eye, Molly delivers razor-sharp observations on love and fear that have us completely identifying with her, and crackling, witty dialogue that's so damn entertaining I wish Yellin would start writing screenplays.”

—CLAIRE FONTAINE, author of Come Back

“Linda Yellin has given us a tart, funny, totally lovable heroine whose path to true love is hilarious and heartwarming. Nora Ephron would have loved this book.”

—JENNY ALLEN, essayist, The New Yorker’s “Disquiet, Please!”

“Could someone please apologize to my husband and children for ignoring them all weekend as I gobbled up this delicious book? I loved every minute of it.”

—KAREN BERGREEN, author of Perfect is Overrated

“Linda’s lively story sparkles and dances off the page.”

—TRACEY JACKSON, author of Between a Rock and a Hot Place

“Linda Yellin has written an irresistibly funny, authentic novel about the two-steps-forward-one-step-back pursuit of life, love and career in New York City. She writes for all of us with Molly Hallberg’s laugh out loud, poignant inability to accept she's met her equal, while everyone around her takes the plunge. Yellin is a Nora Ephron inspired humorist with a voice of her own.”

—KATHRYN LEIGH SCOTT, author of Down and Out in Beverly Heels

“I laughed my way through Linda Yellin’s What Nora Knew—when I wasn't nodding in recognition. Witty, wise, insightful and altogether charming.”

—EMILY LISTFIELD, author of Best Intentions

“Linda Yellin’s novel is by turns touching and funny, and her heroine has charm and chutzpah to spare.”

—CHRISTINA HAAG, author of Come to the Edge: A Love Story

Praise for THE LAST BLIND DATE

“The Last Blind Date is a laugh-out-loud-funny, nakedly revealing, kooky look at romance told with sweetness and soul. From the minute our hero Randy picks up our heroine Linda at the airport with his fly accidentally unzipped, and takes her to his friend’s son’s bar mitzvah, where he mistakenly calls her by the name of his ex-wife, it’s impossible not to root for their love.”

—SUSAN SHAPIRO, author of Five Men Who Broke My Heart

“The Last Blind Date is a valentine for optimism, risk-taking and love itself. With self-deprecating charm, Yellin takes her reader on a journey from Chicago to Manhattan, eviscerating New York City folkways with gentle yet biting wit.”

—SALLY KOSLOW, author of The Widow Waltz

“Yellin’s story is not only a delight to read but an inspiring example of the good that can come from taking risks.”

—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“The Last Blind Date is a candid and charmingly funny account of love. Linda Yellin’s sympathy, wit, and nerve make her determined forging of a family a success, and this book about it completely winning.”

—HILMA WOLITZER, author of An Available Man

“Filled with lots of girl-talk, this memoir will appeal to readers who just can’t get enough of the beginning, middle, and sweet endings of love stories.”

—KIRKUS REVIEWS

“Linda Yellin’s modern love story will leave you laughing ’til it hurts.”

—SAM APPLE, author of American Parent

“I keep on trying to think who I can compare this to, but you really can’t. I can say Erma Bombeck but younger, Chelsea Handler but kinder, but that doesn’t do the book justice. It’s a voice that is unique and compelling.”

—AMAZON REVIEW BY TOTAL STRANGER

Praise for SUCH A LOVELY COUPLE

“Yellin has a gift for moving the plot along and imbuing a familiar tale with freshness and humor. A good read from a writer with the wit and verve of Susan Isaacs.”

—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“Such a rare, ringing clarity of tone and vision. The emotions, the dialogue, the scenery are just dead on.”

—SUSAN KENNEY, author of In Another Country

“Warm and funny and honest.”

—ANN HOOD, author of The Obituary Writer