All Alone with You -- Amelia Diane Coombs, Hardcover

HBO Max's Hacks gets a romantic twist in the vein of Jenn Bennett in this swoon-worthy novel about a standoffish teen girl whose loner status gets challenged by a dynamic elderly woman and a perpetually cheerful boy.

Eloise Deane is the worst and doesn't care who knows it. She's grumpy, prefers to be alone, and is just slogging through senior year with one goal: get accepted to USC and move to California. So when her guidance counselor drops the bombshell that to score a scholarship she'll desperately need, her applications require volunteer hours, Eloise is up for the challenge. Until she's paired with LifeCare, a volunteer agency that offers social support to lonely seniors through phone calls and visits. Basically, it's a total nightmare for Eloise's anxiety.

Eloise realizes she's made a huge mistake--especially when she's paired with Austin, the fellow volunteer who's the sunshine to her cloudy day. But as Eloise and Austin work together to keep Marianne Landis--the mysterious former frontwoman of the 1970s band the Laundromats--company, something strange happens. She actually...likes Marianne and Austin? Eloise isn't sure what to do with that, especially when her feelings toward Austin begin to blur into more-than-friends territory.

And when ex-girlfriends, long-buried wounds, and insecurities reappear, Eloise will have a choice to make: go all in with Marianne and Austin or get out before she gets hurt.

Author: Amelia Diane Coombs
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 07/25/2023
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.91w x 1.17d
ISBN: 9781534493575
Age Range: 13-17

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2023
Publishers Weekly 05/29/2023