Spotlight of Jane and Dan At the End of The World by Colleen Oakley

 

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JANE AND DAN AT THE END OF THE WORLD

COLLEEN OAKLEY

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ALL INFORMATION IN THIS POST IS COURTESYOF CHELSEA PASCOE| BERKLEY | SENIOR PUBLICIST

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Date Night meets Bel Canto in this hilarious and poignant new novel when one unhappy couple on the brink of divorce find themselves at the heart of a crime in progress.

Jane and Dan's nineteenth-anniversary dinner takes a wild turn when they are taken hostage by an eco-activist group hellbent on saving the world.

They soon realize the activists' actions mirror the plot of one of Jane's failed novels, making them the only ones who know what will happen next and how to stop it. 

Within the entertaining framework of a date night that goes off the rails, Colleen Oakley delivers a touching exploration of midlife and marriage that will keep readers guessing until the end.

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March 11, 2025

Women’s Fiction; Humor

Romance

Berkley Hardcover Original

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ABOUT JANE AND DAN AT THE END OF THE WORLD:

The story: Jane and Dan have been married for nineteen years, but Jane isn’t sure they’re going to make it to twenty. The mother of two feels unneeded by her teenagers, and her writing career has screeched to an unsuccessful halt. Her one published novel sold under five hundred copies. Worse? She’s pretty sure Dan is cheating on her. When the couple goes to the renowned upscale restaurant La Fin du Monde to celebrate their anniversary, Jane thinks it’s as good a place as any to tell Dan she wants a divorce.

 

But before they even get to the second course, an underground climate activist group bursts into the dining room. Jane is shocked—and not just because she’s in a hostage situation the likes of which she’s only seen in the movies. Nearly everything the disorganized and bumbling activists say and do is right out of the pages of her failed book. Even Dan (who Jane wasn’t sure even read her book) admits it’s eerily familiar.

Which means Dan and Jane are the only ones who know what’s going to happen next. And they’re the only ones who can stop it. This wasn’t what Jane was thinking of when she said “’til death do us part” all those years ago, but if they can survive this, maybe they can survive anything—even marriage.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Colleen Oakley is the USA Today bestselling author of The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise, The Invisible Husband of Frick Island, You Were There Too, Close Enough to Touch, and Before I Go.

Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages around the world and have won multiple awards including Georgia Author of the Year and the French Reader’s Prize.

A former magazine editor for Women’s Health & Fitness and Marie Claire, Colleen lives in Atlanta with her husband, four children, three chickens, and a mutt named Baxter.

**AUTHOR PHOTO TAKEN FROM THE BOOK'S AMAZON PAGE**

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