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The two have been friends since college, before dating and ultimately getting engaged. It’s a trip she’s made many times with the four others coming along: Cleo, her other best friend Parth, Sabrina’s boyfriend Cleo’s girlfriend Kimmy and finally 31-year-old Wyn, Parth’s best friend – and, unbeknownst to anyone, her EX fiancé. So she’s flying to Maine, where her best friend Sabrina owns a holiday cottage. I mean, fake dating your ex-fiancé? Surely there’s room for humour and hijinks among the deep emotional stuff?ģ0-year-old Harriet is ready to become a hotshot doctor, but even she needs a break on occasion. I’d just read Sarah Hogle’s excellent romcom about second-chance romance with your fiancé, and this sounded like it could offer more of the same. Henry books have been all over my timeline for AGES, but somehow I’ve resisted picking them up – until I encountered this one. Either Emily Henry is one of the most overhyped authors on the planet, or this was an uncharacteristically infuriating book. After years of being in love, how hard can it be to fake it for one week… in front of those who know you best?ĪRC received in exchange for an honest review – thank you!Ģ.5 stars, rounded up. It’s a flawless plan (if you look at it from a great distance and through a pair of sunscreen-smeared sunglasses). Harriet will be the driven surgical resident who never starts a fight, and Wyn will be the laid-back charmer who never lets the cracks show.

They can’t stand to break their friends’ hearts, and so they’ll play their parts. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week they’ll all have together in this place. Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blue week they leave behind their daily lives have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most. Which is how they find themselves sharing the largest bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade.

And still haven’t told their best friends. Except, now-for reasons they’re still not discussing-they don’t.

Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college-they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls.

Other books by the author of happy place emily henry