Overview
For fans of Dolly Alderton and HBO's Hacks, a whip-smart, laugh-out-loud funny debut novel about faking it (and ""making it"") as a writer in Hollywood.TV writer Caroline Neumann is thirty-four and mired in professional envy and self-hatred. Even Harry, her usually supportive therapist husband, thinks it's time for her to press pause on her career ambitions and focus on getting pregnant, despite Caroline's serious ambivalence about having children. When Caroline accidentally stumbles on Harry's patient session notes and offhandedly mentions what she finds in a meeting with a producer, the momentum of Hollywood takes over. Before she knows it--and unbeknownst to Harry--Caroline finds herself pitching a TV show about the deepest, darkest secrets of her husband's favorite patient, a woman known to Caroline only as the Teacher. Amid the indignities of the Hollywood development process, Caroline must balance her burning desire for professional validation against her own morality and the health of her marriage. And when Caroline forms a real-life relationship with Teacher herself, the lines between art and life begin to blur further, shaking up Caroline's understanding of what it means to be the ""likeable female protagonist"" of her own life.
Full Product Details
Author: Hallie Cantor ,
Helen Laser
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Imprint: Simon & Schuster Audio
Edition: Unabridged edition
ISBN: 9781668128756
ISBN 10: 1668128756
Publication Date: 07 April 2026
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
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Reviews
""Achingly funny...This hilarious book also delivers moving insight into the things insecurity can make women think and do."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews (starred review)""
Author Information
Hallie Cantor is an Emmy-nominated television writer for shows including Arrested Development, Lady Dynamite!, Dollface, and Inside Amy Schumer. Her work has been published in the New Yorker's ""Shouts & Murmurs,"" New York magazine, NPR's ""This American Life,"" and the humor anthology Notes from the Bathroom Line. Like This, but Funnier is her debut novel. Helen Laser is an award-winning NYC-based voice actor and artist. Helen narrates for Audible, Penguin Random House, Tantor, and Hachette, and is the voice of Annie's Homegrown. She has appeared on television, in award-winning films that have graced the festival circuit worldwide, and in various stage performances. She is a member of SAG-AFTRA, a published writer, an appreciator of all things spooky, and likes to paint and play various instruments, including auto-harp, accordion, ukulele, and clarinet.
