Happy Place

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Two exes. One pact.
Could this holiday change everything?

Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple - they go together like bread and butter, gin and tonic, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Except, now they don't.

They broke up six months ago. And they still haven't told anyone.

Which is how they end up sharing a bedroom at the cottage that has been their yearly getaway with their best friends for the past decade. For one glorious week they leave behind their lives, drink far too much wine and soak up the sea air with their favourite people.

Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth. The cottage is for sale so this is the last time they'll all be together here and they can't bear to break their friends' hearts. So, they'll fake it for one more week.

It's a flawless plan (if you look at it through a pair of sunscreen-smeared sunglasses).

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

Brimming with characters you can't help but fall for and off-the-charts chemistry, HAPPY PLACE is Emily Henry's best novel yet.

'One of my favourite authors' Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us

'The master of witty repartee' Daily Mail

'Emily Henry never fails to deliver great banter and a romance to swoon over' Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones and the Six

'I've loved every single one of her books more than the previous, to the point that I cannot wait to see what her next title will do to me!' Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

'Emily Henry's books are a gift, the perfect balance between steamy and sweet' V. E Schwab, Gallant

'Our generation's answer to Nora Ephron' Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year

'My newest automatic-buy author' Jodi Picoult, Wish You Were Here

'I don't understand how Emily Henry can KEEP getting better and better when her books are already so good!' Laura Jane Williams, Our Stop

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'Emily Henry is now an auto-buy author for me' Red Magazine

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Critics Review

Emily Henry's books are a gift, the perfect balance between steamy and sweet
V. E Schwab, GALLANT

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This is a book about how difficult it is to let the people we love see us, and how we'd rather let them leave us than burden them with our pain. Beautiful written and very emotive.
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