Everything Is Probably Fine

A delightful romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Julia London, Everything Is Probably Fine follows a woman who, after a cancer scare, decides to finally start living her life to the fullest—only to find her plans derailed by her infuriatingly handsome (and pessimistic) neighbor. After a routine pap smear, forty-three-year-old single mom Alison’s results come back with the terrifying diagnosis of HPV and abnormal cells. For an entire year, she’s forced to wait, worry, and undergo tests, all while trying to keep her anxiety a secret from her teenage daughter and manage her floundering career as a freelance graphic designer. To cope, she creates a “bucket list” of all the things she wants to do if she gets a clean bill of health—including learning to bake bread, finishing the half-done craft projects littering her home, and having mind-blowing sex with a man who isn’t her ex-husband. When she finally gets the good news that she’s healthy, Alison is determined to make up for lost time. But her new lease on life is complicated by her neighbor, Frank, a cynical and annoyingly attractive aerospace engineer who is convinced Alison’s list is a terrible idea. As Alison gamely works her way through her goals, she finds herself increasingly drawn to Frank, despite his grumpy warnings and his own personal baggage. But when her ex-husband suddenly reappears and her daughter starts to pull away, Alison’s perfectly planned new life begins to unravel. With her future once again uncertain, she must learn that sometimes the best things in life aren’t planned at all, and that everything is probably fine.