Much to Seth's jealousy, Georgie and Neal began a flirtation that developed into a relationship. After several months of working there, Georgie noticed Neal, who worked as a cartoonist for the paper, and became attracted to him. Georgie was initially joined at the hip with Seth and the two were co-writers for the ULA college humor magazine The Spoon. Georgie begins to reflect back on their relationship. The following day they talk again and through the conversation Georgie realizes that she is talking to a 22-year-old Neal back in 1998. Georgie calls Neal's mother's house from the landline and talks to him briefly.
After working all day and missing a call from Neal, Georgie goes home to her mother's house where her mother believes she has been dumped by Neal. In the writer's room Georgie and her writing partner Seth, whom she has been best friends with since college, attempt to write the pilot for their show which they have been working on for as long as they have known each other. Georgie asks him to call her when he lands.
Neal is notoriously closed off but even so Georgie senses that he is angry at her as he leaves. Georgie suggests that she and Neal visit his mother after the holidays but Neal decides to leave for Christmas anyway, taking their two young daughters with him. In 2013 Georgie McCool, a 37-year-old sitcom writer, tells her husband Neal she will not be able to spend Christmas with his mother in Omaha, Nebraska, as she and her writing partner, Seth, have just gotten a writing assignment for four scripts for a mid-season pickup and have only ten days to deliver. While the novel has sci-fi themes akin to time travel, these are used mostly as a plot device to describe the hardships of adult life and the crumbling marriage of main character Georgie McCool. The character of Georgie McCool was named after the song Georgy Girl and the village of McCool Junction. Rowell stated that aspects from the novel are loosely based on her own life such as the fact that Georgie is incredibly career-driven while her husband is a stay-at-home dad. It tells the story of 37-year-old Georgie McCool who discovers that she is able to call her husband's 22-year-old self through his landline. Landline is a 2014 American sci-fi novel by Rainbow Rowell.
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