Book Title: LOVE, THEORETICALLY
Character Name: Elsie Hannaway
How would you describe your family or your childhood?
I’d rather not.
What was your greatest talent?
Shapeshifting.
Significant other?
I have an amazing roommate, Cece. Does she count? The way she forces me to watch avant-garde movies feels pretty significant.
Biggest challenge in relationships?
None. You just have to figure out what people want and mold yourself into that. It’s easy!
Where do you live?
Boston, MA.
Do you have any enemies?
Jack Smith. Jonathan Smith-Turner. And my roommate’s hedgehog.
How do you feel about the place where you are now?
Is there something you are particularly attached to, or particularly repelled by, in this place? I wish my apartment had fewer bugs that are larger than my palm, but aside from that I guess it’s fine?
Do you have children, pets, both, or neither?
No kids. Do the bugs count as pets?
What do you do for a living?
I’m a theoretical physicist. And professional fake-girlfriend.
Greatest disappointment?
Bella and Alice should have ended up together.
Greatest source of joy?
Cheese. And Twilight.
What do you do to entertain yourself or have fun?
Cheese. And Twilight.
What is your greatest personal failing, in your view?
I should have murdered Jack Smith when we were alone in his grandmother’s kitchen. There were so many knives around.
What keeps you awake at night?
My roommate’s hedgehog as she attempts to crawl under my cover and devour my tender flesh at 2 AM.
What is the most pressing problem you have at the moment?
I need a new job, like, yesterday.
Is there something that you need or want that you don’t have?
Free insulin for everyone!
Why don’t you have it?
The inhumane lack of a universal, publicly funded health care system
Rival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake dating shenanigans in this delightfully STEMinist romcom from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis and Love on the Brain.
The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she’s an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people-pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs.
Honestly, it’s a pretty sweet gig—until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and arrogant older brother of her favorite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor’s career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere. And he’s the same Jack Smith who rules over the physics department at MIT, standing right between Elsie and her dream job.
Elsie is prepared for an all-out war of scholarly sabotage but…those long, penetrating looks? Not having to be anything other than her true self when she’s with him? Will falling into an experimentalist’s orbit finally tempt her to put her most guarded theories on love into practice?
Romance Comedy [Berkley, On Sale: June 13, 2023, Trade Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9780593336861 / eISBN: 9780593336861]
Ali Hazelwood is a multi-published author—alas, of peer-reviewed articles about brain science, in which no one makes out and the ever after is not always happy. Originally from Italy, she lived in Germany and Japan before moving to the U.S. to pursue a Ph.D. in neuroscience. She recently became a professor, which absolutely terrifies her. When Ali is not at work, she can be found running, eating cake pops, or watching sci-fi movies with her two feline overlords (and her slightly-less-feline husband).
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