![]() ![]() The plot is classic exes-to-lovers, but the varied temporal planes strap readers in for a complex emotional journey that belies any back cover summary.įrom the beginning, Harriet is an easy character to latch onto, attempting to build a new “happy place” in a life post-Wyn. ![]() ![]() “Happy Place” traces the relationship between Harriet and Wyn across multiple timelines, detailing their college romance, derailed engagement and subsequent reunion at a cottage in Maine with their longtime friends - who still don’t know they’ve broken up. In her latest novel “Happy Place,” released April 25, Henry continues to sculpt a sunny world of honest love and easy endings, but the journey to get there is much more poignant and “slow-release hot.” Her fiction borders on cheesy, but it’s blissfully self-aware. Emily Henry is the reigning sovereign of the rom-com.įrom “Book Lovers” to “Beach Read,” Henry toys with common tropes, but she does so with a twist. ![]()
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