Dolly All the Time: A GMA Book Club Pick

By Annabel Monaghan

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK

A hardworking single mom returns to her seaside hometown and stumbles into a fake dating situationship with a wealthy, workaholic scion, from the New York Times bestselling author of Nora Goes Off Script.

“A luminous story of love, duty, and the tension between the two, Dolly All the Time is less like a novel and more like a place I never wanted to leave. This might be my new favorite!” —Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling author


If they start by pretending, can they end with something real?

Dolly Brick has never met a problem she couldn’t solve. Not when her mom left when she was twelve, and not at thirty-nine when she moves with her son back to Whitfield, Rhode Island, for the summer to keep her dad and brother from losing the family home.

So when she comes across Stewart Whitfield—annoyingly handsome scion of the Whitfield family—with a flat tire and at the wrong end of a very public, very humiliating breakup, it’s in her nature to help. But Stewart’s proposed arrangement ends up being more than either of them bargained for, because as public dinners and high-society benefits turn into sunset boat rides and kisses that hit her bloodstream like a ghost pepper, Dolly starts to feel something more than helpful. She’s never relied on anyone besides herself—can she really start now?


“This book is like a spicy margarita…sweet and a little salty, tart and hot…I have fallen in love with Dolly and with funny, fizzing Annabel Monaghan!” —Catherine Newman, New York Times bestselling author of Sandwich

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Published May 26, 2026

400 pages

Average rating: 8.09

243 RATINGS

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Josie.S
7/10 stars
Cute read, very easy. Something you’ll find on quickly. Loved that this was written for love of someone a little older and with a child. The end felt a little rushed and I didn’t like that she kept leading the conversations, taking action. It’s like you have to remind the person to do the right thing and I didn’t like that. I wished he would have done right by her on his own.
Auburn’s
Auburn’s
10/10 stars
Dolly All the Time By Annabel Monaghan This book is pure summer vibes, and I inhaled it like it was the last bag of chips. It’s funny, a little spicy but not too much, and full of that warm fuzzy feeling without being sappy. Perfect porch or beach read. I finished it wishing I could just stay in Whitfield a little longer. I never choose to read much in the Romance category because my past experiences have not been good. As a matter of fact, the last romance I read was Happy Place by Emily Henry, which I thought was the absolute worst. I barely made it through. But I loved this one so much that I’ll definitely be giving some others a try.
Carli Petow
Carli Petow
10/10 stars
I wasn’t the biggest big fan of “It’s a Love Story,” but this book was eons better, funnier, and had way more heart imo. Idk? I think I just loved this story more and related way more to the characters!
Larry Burns
Larry Burns
8/10 stars
A happy story!

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