People We Meet on Vacation
Emily Henry, 2021
Two best friends who vacation together every summer have one last trip to fix what went wrong between them—and decide what they are.
Emily Henry
Emily Henry's novels tend to put two people in a shared place for a stretch of time—a lakeside cottage, a rented house, a summer trip—and let the talking, teasing and old hurt do the work. Start with «Beach Read», where a romance writer who has stopped believing in love inherits a cottage next to a literary rival, or «People We Meet on Vacation», about two best friends whose yearly trips together carry more than either says out loud.
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Emily Henry is from Cincinnati; this novel’s beach scenes are set on Florida’s Sanibel Island, a real barrier island known for shelling.
The oldest child who learned to keep everything buttoned up.
Alex Nilsen is a study in control. In that tall, broad, permanently slouched and/or pretzel-folded body of his, there’s a surplus of stoicism (the result of being the oldest child of a widower with the most vocal anxiety of anyone I’ve ever met) and a stockpile of repression (the result of a strict religious upbringing in direct opposition to most of his passions; namely, academia), alongside the most truly strange, secretly silly, and intensely softhearted goofball I’ve had the pleasure to know. Books by Emily Henry
Beach Read
Emily Henry, 2020
A romance novelist who has stopped believing in love inherits a lakeside cottage, a literary rival next door, and one summer to write a book she doesn't want to.
Funny Story
Emily Henry, 2024
When her fiancé leaves her for his childhood best friend, a librarian moves in with the other person left behind and tries to rebuild.
Happy Place
Emily Henry, 2023
Three college friends, one Maine cottage, and a narrator carrying a secret through the happiest week of the year.
Book Lovers
Emily Henry, 43
A sharp literary agent, cast as the city girlfriend in everyone else’s love story, meets a grumpy editor who might be her equal—and her rival.
Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry, 2025
A warm, funny novel about love, storytelling, and the versions of ourselves we offer other people—for anyone who has ever overthought being cool.
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