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A shimmering, joyful novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author Emily Henry

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.

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.

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?

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?

'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


©2024 Emily Henry (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Critics Review

Emily Henry at her absolute best. Warm, sexy and beautifully written. I adored it

Beth O'Leary

I’m officially in my Emily Henry era and I never want to leave. She is the queen of heartwarming contemporary romance

Mia Sheridan

Emily Henry is fast becoming a firm auto-buy author for romance lovers

Woman & Home

Always an escapist treat

The Express

Emily Henry never misses

iNews

A funny new rom com

Mail

She’s back!

Cosmopolitan

User Reviews

Book 4.3
Narration 5.0
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A sweet story in a nice setting, mostly easy listening, just what I wanted as a bedtime story. Basically, it's a typical tale of disappointed love and the inevitable encounter with a soul mate who, despite his tough exterior, turns out to be Prince Charming. However, here and there the book has unexpected depth. For my taste, there was too much "she said - he said" in the text, which annoyed me after a while. But overall I enjoyed it and the narrator has a good voice, which is important to me.
emmay 10/10/2024
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Lolajane28 06/12/2024
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KayleighJo 24/10/2024

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