Abbi Waxman

Larchmont Stories

1 - The Garden of Small Beginnings (May-2017)
2 - The Bookish Life of Nina Hill (Jul-2019)
3 - Adult Assembly Required (May-2022)

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  The Garden of Small Beginnings
  

  • May-2017
  • / Contemporary Romance
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  Larchmont Stories - 1
  

  In the spirit of A Man Called Ove and Good Grief -- a poignant, funny, and utterly believable novel about life and loss. Give grief a chance... Lilian Girvan has been a single mother for three years -- ever since her husband died in a car acc...

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  Other People's Houses
  

  • Apr-2018
  • / Women's Fiction
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  The author of The Garden of Small Beginnings returns with a hilarious and poignant new novel about four families, their neighborhood carpool, and the affair that changes everything. At any given moment in other people's houses, you can find...rep...

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  The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
  

  • Jul-2019
  • / Women's Fiction
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  Larchmont Stories - 2
  

  The author of Other People’s Houses and The Garden of Small Beginnings delivers a quirky and charming novel chronicling the life of confirmed introvert Nina Hill as she does her best to fly under everyone's radar. Meet Nina Hill: A young wo...

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  The Bookish Holidays of Nina Hill: A Short Story
  

  • Dec-2019
  • / Contemporary Romance
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  In which our heroine enjoys the spirit of Christmas. Mostly....

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  I Was Told It Would Get Easier
  

  • Jun-2020
  • / Women's Fiction
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  Squashed among a bus full of strangers, mother-daughter duo Jessica and Emily Burnstein watch their carefully mapped-out college tour devolve into a series of off-roading misadventures, from the USA Today bestselling author of The Bookish Life of Nin...

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  Adult Assembly Required
  

  • May-2022
  • / Women's Fiction
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  Larchmont Stories - 3
  

  “Abbi Waxman is both irreverent and thoughtful.” -- #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily GiffinA young woman arrives in Los Angeles determined to start over and discovers she doesn’t need to leave everything behind after all, from Abbi Wa...

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  Christa Comes Out of Her Shell
  

  • Apr-2024
  • / Women's Fiction
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  Just when she thought she’d gotten far enough away . . . a life-changing phone call throws an antisocial scientist back into her least favorite place -- the spotlight. A hilarious and insightful new novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Th...

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  One Death at a Time
  

  • Apr-2025
  • / Cozy Mystery
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  “Abbi Waxman is both irreverent and thoughtful.” -- #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily GiffinA cranky former actress teams up with her Gen Z sobriety sponsor to solve the murder that threatens to send her back to prison in this dazzling n...

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