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SRC2020, SRC2021, SRC2022, SRC2023 Guest Author
Emily Henry writes stories about love and family for both teens and adults. She studied creative writing at Hope College and the New York Center for Art & Media Studies, and now spends most of her time in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the part of Kentucky just beneath it. Find her on Instagram @EmilyHenryWrites.
about HAPPY PLACE
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 byĀ BuzzFeedĀ āĀ Paste MagazineĀ ā Southern LivingĀ āĀ and more!
A couple who broke up months ago pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.
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Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in collegeāthey go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, nowāfor reasons theyāre still not discussingāthey donāt.
They broke up five months ago. And still havenāt told their best friends.
Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend groupās yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blissful week they leave behind their daily lives; have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood; and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most.
Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week theyāll all have together in this place. They canāt stand to break their friendsā hearts, and so theyāll play their parts. Harriet will be the driven surgical resident who never starts a fight, and Wyn will be the laid-back charmer who never lets the cracks show. Itās a flawless plan (if you look at it from a great distance and through a pair of sunscreen-smeared sunglasses). After years of being in love, how hard can it be to fake it for one weekā¦in front of those who know you best?
āEmily Henry never fails to deliver ā¦ this may just beĀ her best yet.āāTaylor Jenkins Reid
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about BOOK LOVERS
An insightful, delightful, instant #1 New York Times bestseller from theĀ author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation.
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Oprah Daily ā Today ā Parade ā Marie Claire ā Bustle ā PopSugar ā Katie Couric Media ā Book Bub ā SheReads ā Medium ā The Washington Post āĀ and more!
One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn’t see coming…
Nora Stephens’ life is booksāsheās read them allāand she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby.
Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sistersā trip awayāwith visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who sheās convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that theyāve met many times and itās never been cute.
If Nora knows sheās not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows heās nobodyās hero, but as they are thrown together again and againāin a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allowāwhat they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories theyāve written about themselves.
about PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION
Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.Ā
From theĀ New York TimesĀ bestselling author ofĀ Beach Read, a sparkling new novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations.
Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. Sheās a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apartāsheās in New York City, and heās in their small hometownābut every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.
Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since.
Poppy has everything she should want, but sheās stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation togetherālay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees.
Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?
about BEACH READ
“Original, sparkling bright, and layered with feeling…” -Sally Thorne, author of The Hating Game
A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.
Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast.
They’re polar opposites.
In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer’s block.
Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.