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Also by Colleen Oakley:

Jane and Dan at the End of the World, March 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise, March 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise, April 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
The Invisible Husband of Frick Island, June 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
Close Enough to Touch, April 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
You Were There Too, January 2020
Trade Size / e-Book
Close Enough to Touch, March 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
Before I Go, January 2015
Hardcover / e-Book

THE MOSTLY TRUE STORY OF TANNER & LOUISE
By: Colleen Oakley

Berkley
April 2023
On Sale: March 28, 2023
352 pages
ISBN: 0593200802
EAN: 9780593200803
Kindle: B0B5CPCW2B
Hardcover / e-Book
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Other Editions
Trade Paperback (March 2024)

Women's Fiction Contemporary

One of Southern Living's Most Anticipated 2023 Releases
One of Today's Most Anticipated 2023 Releases

An unforgettable pairing of a college dropout and an eighty-four-year-old woman on the run from the law in this story full of tremendous heart, humor, and wit from the USA Today bestselling author of The Invisible Husband of Frick Island.

Twenty-one-year-old Tanner Quimby needs a place to live. Preferably one where she can continue sitting around in sweatpants and playing video games nineteen hours a day. Since she has no credit or money to speak of, her options are limited, so when an opportunity to work as a live-in caregiver for an elderly woman falls into her lap, she takes it.
 
One slip on the rug. That’s all it took for Louise Wilt’s daughter to demand that Louise have a full-time nanny living with her. Never mind that she can still walk fine, finish her daily crossword puzzle, and pour the two fingers of vodka she drinks every afternoon.Bottom line: Louise wants a caretaker even less than Tanner wants to be one.
 
The two start off their living arrangement happily ignoring each other until Tanner starts to notice things—weird things. Like, why does Louise keep her garden shed locked up tighter than a prison? And why is the local news fixated on the suspect of one of the biggest jewelry heists in American history who looks eerily like Louise? And why does Louise suddenly appear in her room, with a packed bag at 1 a.m.  insisting that they leave town immediately?
 
Thus begins the story of a not-to-be-underestimated elderly woman and an aimless young woman who—if they can outrun the mistakes of their past—might just have the greatest adventure of their lives.

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