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Beach Read

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Beach Read Synopsis

Emily Henry's beloved New York Times bestselling novel now in this stunning hardcover collector's edition featuring:

A shimmering revamped cover
 Sunset sky art endpapers and sprayed edges
 Gold foil stamped case, and...
 A new introduction from the author and a bonus January and Gus epilogue, "The Layover"


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.
 
Then 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.

"A tender, thoughtful, and very funny book…it's not only convincing but infectious."-The New York Times Book Review

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780593817414
Publication date: 1st October 2024
Author: Emily Henry
Publisher: Berkley an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 400 pages
Genres: Romance / Relationship Stories
Modern and Contemporary romance
General Fiction
Contemporary lifestyle fiction

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Beach Read teaches us that nothing is guaranteed - life, love, or happily ever afters. For this reason, we need to embrace the "now" of things and leave the "buts" for tomorrow.

I have only recently been introduced to Emily Henry and I swear I crave her books like a dog craves a bone. I finally realized why I enjoy her writing so much (Beach Read included) - with each book, she imparts a bit of wisdom on how to survive the rollercoaster that's called life. She doesn't season it up with wishful thinking and fairytale moments. She reminds us that life can be down right brutal at times but we will get through it and come out on the other side strong. And if we don't, that's ok too.

January Andrews is dealing with enough issues in life right now - family secrets, a loss of a parent, a recent breakup - the last thing she needed was writer’s block!... Read Full Review

Enya Miche