Publication Date: April 22, 2025
A small-town waitress and a big-city Broadway press agent swap homes to escape the messiness of their personal lives, only to find new purpose—and new love.
Tatum Ward and Eleanor Chapman lead totally opposite lives. Tatum’s never left her Midwestern hometown. She resides in a quaint guest cottage on her parents’ property while working part-time as a waitress, where she spends most shifts ignoring her feelings for a beautiful regular named June. Eleanor dedicates every waking hour to her high-profile press career, sacrificing personal relationships for professional success, save for the occasional hookup to fight off her loneliness. When both women’s lives unexpectedly blow up at the exact same time, they each need an escape, and fast.
In Tatum’s hometown, Eleanor expects a quiet hideaway where she can recharge. Instead she gets wrapped up in the family drama that Tatum left town to avoid, pulled in by Tatum’s charismatic older sibling, Carson, who charms Eleanor at every turn. Tatum ends up in Eleanor’s New York high-rise apartment with June. One week together in the big city might make it impossible for Tatum to avoid not just her true feelings for June, but her real dreams for her life.
Amid a friendship with a reclusive Hollywood actress and a complicated family reunion, Tatum and Eleanor each discover much more than they bargained for away from home. Their house swap won’t last forever, but it might be just long enough for both women to surrender their defenses and finally fight for the life—and love—they deserve.
Bridget Morrissey takes the lives of what seems like mundane characters and steadily moves them in and out of each others’ lives to create a heartwarming story of love, friendship, and family…just not in the conventional ways you might expect!
Anywhere You Go begins with Tatum convincing herself that working in a diner fits in with her personal mission to solve problems for others. The diners feel connected to her, and she loves them all, especially June Lightbell. June is an entrepreneur who creates individual perfumes and often bends Tatum’s ear while hanging out at the diner. Much of their talk is about June’s girlfriend. What the patrons don’t know is that Tatum has a business of her own, a service that writes breakup messages, and June is soon the recipient of one.
But before the author lets us see what lies ahead for Tatum and June, she introduces us to Eleanor, a Broadway Press agent who is about to have her own life quickly unravel with a surprising breakup.
Doesn’t this sound like the makings of a cute rom-com? Well, it is only the beginning of a romantic comedy, but it is so much more. The women do an apartment switch for a change of scenery to examine the state of their lives, but we also get to tap into other serious topics.
Bridget Morrissey craftily includes struggling with gender identity, negotiating bitter parents, accepting new family members that resulted from a long-ago affair, and determining when to accept where life has brought you or deciding to start a whole new life. Yet, the author writes such cheeky banter between characters, and the heavy subject matter seems to fit in the lighthearted story.
Anywhere You Go is layered with relatable life experiences and filled with witty dialogue that may make the reader go looking for anything else Morrissey has written. 
Bridget Morrissey lives in Los Angeles, California, but hails from Oak Forest, Illinois. When she’s not writing, she can be found coaching gymnastics or headlining concerts in her living room.
