Great Big Beautiful Life

Two writers. One holiday. A romcom waiting to happen...<BR><BR>-------<BR><BR>'One of my favourite authors' Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us<BR>'A great love story' Jodi Picoult, Wish You Were Here<BR>'The perfect escapist romp' Laura Jane Williams, One Night With You<BR><BR>January is a hopeless romantic who narrates her life like she's the lead in a blockbuster movie.<BR><BR>Gus is a serious literary type who thinks true love is a fairy-tale.<BR><BR>But January and Gus have more in common than you'd think:<BR><BR>They're both broke.<BR>They've got crippling writer's block.<BR>And they need to write bestsellers before summer ends.<BR><BR>The result? A bet to swap genres and see who gets published first.<BR>The risk? In telling each other's stories, their worlds might be changed entirely...<BR><BR>Set over one sizzling summer, Beach Read is a witty love story that will make you laugh a lot, cry a little and fall head over heels. For fans of The Flat Share and If I Never Met You.<BR><BR>-------<BR><BR>'My heart ached for January, and Gus is to die for - a steamy, smart and perceptive romance' Josie Silver, One Night on the Island<BR><BR>'Full of banter, heat, and sexual tension, I felt the thrill of falling in love right alongside January and Gus. A gorgeous page-turner of a novel' Laura Jane Williams, One Night With You<BR><BR>'Funny, and seriously sizzling' Best<BR><BR>'If whipcrack banter and sexual tension is your catnip, you'll adore this book' Sally Thorne, The Hating Game<BR><BR>'Touching and heartfelt . . . I closed this book with a satisfied sigh' Jasmine Guillory, While We Were Dating<BR><BR>'Clever and funny, this is a tender love story' Woman & Home<BR><BR>Emily Henry, Sunday Times bestseller, May 2024

One holiday. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming...<BR><BR>--------<BR><BR>'Her best yet' Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising<BR>'One of my favourite authors' Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us<BR>'Magical, delightful, and utterly one of a kind' Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis<BR><BR>Nora is a cut-throat literary agent at the top of her game. Her whole life is books.<BR><BR>Charlie is an editor with a gift for creating bestsellers. And he's Nora's work nemesis.<BR><BR>Nora has been through enough break-ups to know she's the one men date before finding their happy-ever-after. To prevent another dating dud, Nora's sister has persuaded her to swap her city desk for a month's holiday in Sunshine Falls.<BR><BR>It's a small town straight out of a romance novel, but instead of meeting sexy lumberjacks, handsome doctors or cute bartenders, Nora keeps bumping into...Charlie.<BR><BR>She's no heroine. He's no hero. So can they take a page out of an entirely different book?<BR><BR>Brimming with witty banter, characters you can't help but fall for and off-the-charts chemistry, BOOK LOVERS is Emily Henry's best novel yet.<BR><BR>--------<BR><BR>'Emily Henry's books are a gift, the perfect balance between steamy and sweet' V. E Schwab, Gallant<BR><BR>'So smart, so funny, so sexy' Beth O'Leary, The No-Show<BR><BR>'Emily Henry has another hit on her hands' Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet<BR><BR>'A thoroughly modern yet classic romance' Sunday Times<BR><BR>'Heartfelt, funny, and full of joy. (Also, three cheers for Nora's super-relatable bangs journey!)' Tia Williams, Seven Days in June<BR><BR>'The master of witty repartee' Daily Mail<BR><BR>'Super fun, sassy, smart, sexy... Emily Henry is now an auto-buy author for me' Red Magazine<BR><BR>'Book Lovers is Schitt's Creek for book nerds' Casey Mcquiston, One Last Stop<BR><BR>'The most phenomenal portrayal of enemies to lovers I have ever read. . .' Laura Jane Williams, Our Stop<BR><BR>Sunday Times bestseller, May 2022

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR & GLOBAL TIK TOK SENSATION, EMILY HENRY<BR><BR>'One of my favourite authors' COLLEEN HOOVER, It Ends With Us<BR>'Emily knows how to craft a love story like the all-time greats' TAYLOR JENKINS REID, Daisy Jones and The Six<BR><BR>-----<BR><BR>Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. That is until it became the prologue to his actual love story with his childhood bestie, Petra.<BR><BR>Which is how Daphne ends up rooming with her total opposite and the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra's ex, Miles.<BR><BR>As expected, it's not a match made in heaven - that is until one night, while tossing back tequilas, they form a plan.<BR><BR>And if it involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their adventures together, well, who could blame them?<BR><BR>But it's all just for show, of course.<BR><BR>Because there's no way Daphne would start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé's new fiancée's ex . . . right?<BR><BR>A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author Emily Henry<BR><BR>-----<BR><BR>PRAISE FOR EMILY HENRY<BR><BR>'The master of witty repartee' Daily Mail<BR><BR>'I've loved every single one of her books more than the previous' Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis<BR><BR>'The book that you just know all the girls are going to be reading by the side of the pool this summer... ' The Mirror<BR><BR>'My newest automatic-buy author' Jodi Picoult, Wish You Were Here<BR><BR>'This book is an utter delight' Prima<BR><BR>'Emily Henry has become one of my favourite authors' Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare<BR><BR>'Emily Henry's books are a gift, the perfect balance between steamy and sweet' V. E Schwab, Gallant<BR><BR>'A joyful and cathartic romcom that is truly the funniest of stories' The Skinny<BR><BR>'Nobody does it quite like Emily Henry' Casey McQuiston, Red, White and Royal Blue<BR><BR>'The queen of rom-coms is back' Refinery29<BR><BR>'Our generation's answer to Nora Ephron' Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year<BR><BR>'As a storyteller, Henry is in a class of her own' Elle Kennedy, The Deal<BR><BR><BR>Emily Henry, No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller, May 2023 & No. 1 New York Times bestseller, June 2023

An insightful, delightful, instant #1 New York Times bestseller from the author of Funny Story. <BR><BR>“One of my favorite authors.”—Colleen Hoover<BR><BR>One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming...<BR><BR>Nora Stephens' life is books—she’s read them all—and 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.<BR><BR>Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away—with visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who she’s 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 they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute.<BR><BR>If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.

Die Romance-Autorin und der Literat: charmante Romcom über Bücher, das Leben und natürlich die LiebeWie schreibt man einen Liebesroman, wenn die eigene Beziehung gerade in die Brüche gegangen ist? In einem idyllisch gelegenen Strandhaus hofft die New Yorker Romance-Autorin January, ihre Schreibblockade zu überwinden, denn der Abgabetermin für ihren neuesten Liebesroman rückt unerbittlich näher. Gleich am ersten Abend beobachtet January eine wilde Party bei ihrem Nachbarn - der sich ausgerechnet als der arrogante Gus herausstellt, mit dem sie vor Jahren einen Schreibkurs besucht hat.Als January erfährt, dass Gus ebenfalls in einer veritablen Schreibkrise steckt, seit er sich vorgenommen hat, den nächsten großen amerikanischen Roman zu verfassen, hat sie eine ebenso verzweifelte wie geniale Idee: Sie schreiben einfach das Buch des jeweils anderen weiter! Ein Experiment mit erstaunlichen Folgen ...Wenn Bücher deine große Liebe sind: 'Verliebt in deine schönsten Seiten' ist eine moderne, locker-leicht erzählte romantische Komödie über zwei Autoren mit erheblichen Vorurteilen gegen das Genre des jeweils anderen, über die Liebe zu Büchern und zum Lesen und natürlich über das Suchen (und Finden) der ganz großen Liebe, die sich gerne da versteckt, wo man sie am wenigsten erwartet. Entdecke auch die anderen witzig-romantischen Romane von Emily Henry, die sich perfekt als Urlaubslektüre eigenen:Kein Sommer ohne dichHappy PlaceBook LoversFunny StoryGreat Big Beautiful Life

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ∙ A shimmering, joyful novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.<BR><BR>A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024<BR><BR>Named a Must-Read Book of 2024 by TIME ∙ NPR ∙ ELLE ∙ Parade ∙ Woman’s World and more!<BR> <BR>Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.<BR><BR>Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak.<BR><BR>Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads—Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?<BR><BR>But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex . . . right?

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