LoveReading Says
Our heroine Harriet has been excited to escape her post-break-up lonely flat and gruelling job as a trainee surgeon to reunite with her best friends in their favourite holiday spot – but when she arrives, she discovers that her ex is there too. Can they keep it a secret to avoid ruining the holiday – or will they discover their friends have their own secrets too?
Emily Henry is up there with the best romantic comedy authors writing today, and Happy Place is an absolute classic of her feel-good novels. Any novel by Emily Henry is going to be great, and this is no exception. As a book nerd, my personal favorites of hers are still the publishing-themed pair Book Lovers and Beach Read – whereas this feels more like the spiritual companion novel to You and Me on Vacation.
Harriet is a brilliantly realised avoidant people-pleaser, a flawed yet admirable heroine we can all relate to and aspire to be more like. I didn’t know before reading this that the perfect man is an artisanal carpenter with curly hair and an inferiority complex who smokes weed with his mum – but now it seems obvious that of course he is.
It’s delightful to read a couple as obsessed with each other as Harriet and Wyn – constantly aware of each other’s bodies and thoughts, both soulmates and hurt enemies, trying angrily to make the other as horny as they are. Lovely stuff. My favourite moments were their ‘past’ dialogue – exemplary examples of the kind of impossibly fervent, devoted, nostalgic yet playful conversations that you read romances for. In fact, my only reservation with this book is that I can’t believe that anyone shortens the name ‘Harriet’ to ‘Har’ (am I wrong?).
A summer holiday in a book.
Lily Lindon
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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.
Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college-they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now-for reasons they're still not discussing-they don't.
They broke up five months ago. And still haven't told their best friends.
Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group's 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 they'll all have together in this place. They can't stand to break their friends' hearts, and so they'll 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. It's 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 week…in front of those who know you best?
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780593817704 |
| Publication date: |
5th March 2024 |
| Author: |
Emily Henry |
| Publisher: |
Berkley an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
416 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Romance / Relationship Stories
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