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  • Published: 25 April 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241997932
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $32.99

Happy Place




Set over one sizzling summer, HAPPY PLACE is the new chemistry-filled 'second chance love' romcom from Tiktok sensation, New York and Sunday Times bestselling author of Beach Read and Book Lovers

Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple - they go together like bread and butter, gin and tonic, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Every year, they take a holiday from their lives to drink far too much wine with their favourite people in the world. Except this year, they are lying through their teeth, because Harriet and Wyn broke up six months ago. And they still haven't told anyone.

But the cottage is for sale so this is the last time they'll all be here together. They can't bear to break their best friends' hearts so they'll fake it for one more week.

But how can you pretend to be in love - and get away with it - in front of the people who know you best?

  • Published: 25 April 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241997932
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $32.99

About the author

Emily Henry

Emily Henry is the author of the butterfly-inducing romantic comedies Beach Read and You & Me on Vacation, both of which were New York Times bestsellers. She studied creative writing at Hope College and now lives and writes in the American Midwest. She has featured in Prima, Elle, Woman & Home, The Independent (among others) and Jodi Picoult calls her 'my newest automatic-buy author.' Book Lovers is her third novel.

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Praise for Happy Place

Emily Henry's books are a gift, the perfect balance between steamy and sweet

V. E Schwab, GALLANT

Nobody does it quite like Emily Henry

Casey McQuiston, RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE

Our generation's answer to Nora Ephron

Sophie Cousens, THIS TIME NEXT YEAR

My newest automatic-buy author

Jodi Picoult, WISH YOU WERE HERE

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