Beach Read

A special hardcover edition of

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Emily Henry is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of People We Meet on Vacation and Beach Read. She studied creative writing at Hope College, and now spends most of her time in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the part of Kentucky just beneath it. Find her on Instagram @emilyhenrywrites.

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Emily Henry’s beloved New York Times bestselling novel now in this stunning hardcover collector’s edition featuring:

• A shimmering revamped cover
• Sunset sky art endpapers and sprayed edges
• Gold foil stamped case, and...
• A new introduction from the author and a bonus January and Gus epilogue, “The Layover”

A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.       

Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a Happily Ever After, he kills off his entire cast.
 
They’re polar opposites.
 
In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke and bogged down with writer’s block.
 
Then one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.

“A tender, thoughtful, and very funny book…it’s not only convincing but infectious.”—The New York Times Book Review

Zusammenfassung
Once I started Beach Read I legit did not put it down. *Betches*

One of...
The New York Times Book Review's Summer Romance Reads
Entertainment Weekly s Hottest Summer Reads of 2020
*Oprah Magazine's Best Beach Reads of Summer 2020
*Betches 20 Books to Read in 2020
SheReads Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020
*Goodreads' Big Books of Spring*
Popsugar's 25 Exciting New Books Coming Out in May
Bustle's Most Anticipated May Titles
Shondaland's Five Books to Read in May
TheSkimm's 11 Buzzy Books for Your Imaginary Beach Bag
Good Morning America's 25 Novels You'll Want to Read this Summer
The New York Post's Required Reading
Good Housekeeping's 25 Best Beach Reads
Huffington Post's Best Books to Read during Quarantine
CNN's Perfect Summer Reads
LitHub's Ultimate Summer 2020 Reading List
BookRiot's 6 Captivating New Books

Reader, I swooned! Beach Read is a breath of fresh air. My heart ached for January, and Gus is to die for a steamy, smart and perceptive romance. I was engrossed! Josie Silver, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December

This is a touching and heartfelt book about love, betrayal, grief, failure, and learning how to love again. I adored going along on Gus and January s journey, and I closed this book with a satisfied sigh. Jasmine Guillory, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Proposal

• Beach Read is original, sparkling bright, and layered with feeling. Has trying to see the world through your long time crush/rival s eyes ever been this potent and poignant? If whipcrack banter and foggy sexual tension is your catnip, you ll adore this book. *Sally Thorne, USA Today bestselling author of The Hating Game and *99 Percent Mine

  Beach Read is exactly the witty, charming, and swoony novel we always want; it also happens to be the unexpected wallop of emotional wisdom and sly social commentary we need right now. I adored it. *Julia Whelan, author of My Oxford Year

  [It] has everything the title promises a romping plot, family secrets, and the thrill of falling in love, all set on the sweeping shores of eastern Lake Michigan. I cannot wait to read what Henry writes next. Amy E. Reichert, author The Coincidence of Coconut Cake and *The Optimist s Guide to Letting Go

• Delightfully romantic and slyly poignant, Beach Read is brimming with crackling banter and engrossing prose. It has every flavor of booklover catnip: rivalry, creative struggle, family secrets, and the sweet head-over-heels tumble into love. Emily Henry's Beach Read is 2020's perfect anywhere read. Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author of *The Unhoneymooners

• If you liked Sally Thorne s The Hating Game and Linda Holmes s Evvie Drake Starts Over, you will definitely be into this, which feels like their spawn. (No one asked me to say this, by the way. I m just high on that happy-sad feeling of finishing a book I enjoyed, that I wish wasn t over.) Well played. Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, bestselling authors of *The Royal We

• Readers are sure to fall hard for this meta, heartfelt take on the romance genre. Publishers Weekly (starred review)*

• A heartfelt look at taking second chances, in life and in love. ***Kirkus Reviews

This will still sweep readers off their feet. January s first-person narration is suitably poetic and effervescent, the small-town beach setting is charming, and the romance is achingly swoony. Booklist

That Henry can manage to both pack a fierce emotional wallop and spear literary posturing in one go is a testament to her immense skill. Entertainment Weekly*

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Henry / BEACH READ

1

The House

I have a fatal flaw.

I like to think we all do. Or at least that makes it easier for me when I m writing ­building my heroines and heroes up around this one self-­sabotaging trait, hinging everything that happens to them on a specific characteristic: the thing they learned to do to protect themselves and can t let go of, even when it stops serving them.

Maybe, for example, you didn t have much control over your life as a kid. So, to avoid disappointment, you learned never to ask yourself what you truly wanted. And it worked for a long time. Only now, upon realizing you didn t get what you didn t know you wanted, you re barreling down the highway in a midlife-­crisis-­mobile with a suitcase full of cash and a man named Stan in your trunk.

Maybe your fatal flaw is that you don t use turn signals.

Or maybe, like me, you re a hopeless romantic. You just can t stop telling yourself the story. The one about your own life, complete with melodramatic soundtrack and golden light lancing through car windows.

It started when I was twelve. My parents sat me down to tell me the news. Mom had gotten her first diagnosis ­suspicious cells in her left breast ­and she told me not to worry so many times I suspected I d be grounded if she caught me at it. My mom was a do-­er, a laugher, an optimist, not a worrier, but I could tell she was terrified, and so I was too, frozen on the couch, unsure how to say anything without making things worse.

But then my bookish homebody of a father did something unexpected. He stood and grabbed our hands ­one of Mom s, one of mine ­and said, You know what we need to get these bad feelings out? We need to dance!

Our suburb had no clubs, just a mediocre steak house with a Friday night cover band, but Mom lit up like he d just suggested taking a private jet to the Copacabana.

She …