Name: Annabel Monaghan - DOLLY ALL THE TIME
Start: 2026-06-08T16:00:00-04:00
Location: OceanCliff Hotel

We are excited to welcome New York Times bestselling author Annabel Monaghan for a special cocktail evening at OceanCliff to celebrate Dolly All the Time. In Whitfield, RI (a fictional town based on Newport), Dolly, a hardworking single mom, returns to her seaside hometown and stumbles into a fake dating situation-ship with the wealthy, handsome, and workaholic Stewart Whitfield. How long can they keep pretending once they open up to each other?
“This book is like a spicy margarita…sweet and a little salty, tart and hot…I have fallen in love with Dolly and with funny, fizzing Annabel Monaghan!” —Catherine Newman, New York Times bestselling author of Sandwich
Annabel will be in conversation with Kylie McCollough; founder and creative force behind the Newport Ladies Book Club, a dynamic literary community here in Newport.
Tickets are $75 and include admission to the reception, a signed copy of the book, and hors d'oeuvres. OceanCliff's cash bar will be open during the event, and the Safari Room restaurant is available for dinner afterwards. Use the link to purchase your ticket!
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Dolly Brick has never met a problem she couldn’t solve. Not when her mom left when she was twelve, and not at thirty-nine when she moves with her son back to Whitfield, Rhode Island, for the summer to keep her dad and brother from losing the family home.
So when she comes across Stewart Whitfield—annoyingly handsome scion of the Whitfield family—with a flat tire and at the wrong end of a very public, very humiliating breakup, it’s in her nature to help. But Stewart’s proposed arrangement ends up being more than either of them bargained for, because as public dinners and high-society benefits turn into sunset boat rides and kisses that hit her bloodstream like a ghost pepper, Dolly starts to feel something more than helpful. She’s never relied on anyone besides herself—can she really start now?
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Annabel Monaghan is the New York Times bestselling and Library Reads Hall of Fame author of It’s a Love Story, Summer Romance, Same Time Next Summer, and Nora Goes Off Script, as well as two young adult novels and Does This Volvo Make My Butt Look Big?, a selection of laugh-out-loud columns that appeared in The Huffington Post, The Week, and The Rye Record. After twenty-five years in the suburbs of New York City, she now splits her time between Connecticut and Florida. Her novels have been translated into twenty-two languages.
Kylie McCollough is the founder and creative force behind the Newport Ladies Book Club, a dynamic literary community in Newport, Rhode Island. Renowned for her imaginative approach to book discussions, she curates exclusive events that transform reading into immersive experiences—often selecting venues and themes that echo the spirit of each book. Her unique vision has earned national attention, including a feature on the Today Show with Read with Jenna. A hallmark of the club’s success is McCollough’s ability to connect readers with bestselling authors such as Elin Hilderbrand, Jeanine Cummins, and Alison Espach, fostering meaningful conversations that go beyond the page.