Sophie Cousens’ This Time Next Year is the latest pick for the Good Morning America book club.
The hosts of the morning show unveiled the selection on Tuesday, with George Stephanopoulos saying, “We all know that traveling is not an option right now, so we’re going to take a little virtual trip to London with this month’s pick.”
Cousens’ debut novel follows Minnie Cooper, a 30-year-old British woman who keeps running into Quinn Hamilton, a successful businessman who was born just minutes before her on New Year’s Day. Penguin Random House imprint Putnam says the book “explores the way fate leads us to the people we least expect—no matter what the odds.”
Cousens told GMA that she thinks fans of British screenwriter Richard Curtis (Notting Hill, Love Actually) will enjoy her novel.
“This is a heartwarming New Year’s themed-romantic comedy that’s going to get you in the mood for the holidays,” she said. “This is a love story, but it’s so much more than that. It’s about friendship and family, fate and fortune.”
The GMA book club launched in 2019 with Angie Cruz’s Dominicana as its inaugural selection. Other picks have included Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Virtue and Vengeance, Anna Solomon’s The Book of V., and Kevin Kwan’s Sex and Vanity.
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
