![]() ![]() ![]() Bookselling This Week: Happy Place alternates chapters between what Harriet describes as her happy place versus real life. ![]() It was the best of times it was the worst of times. Only Emily Henry can write a book where the message is the happy place is the friends we made along the way and make it not hopelessly cheesy. Emily Henry is the master of the romance novel and Happy Place is her best one yet Here, Henry discusses her writing process with Bookselling This Week. There’s also the sudden death of a loved one in the book’s second act, complete with psychological fallout, as well as plenty of picturesque outdoor dining and leisure activities. Emily Henry Happy Place Paperback 4.5 6,727 ratings Amazon Charts 2 this week See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 17.53 25 Used from 17.49 33 New from 12.75 Paperback 26.94 3 New from 16.99 Audio CD 29.64 20 Used from 26.54 19 New from 27. ![]() Meanwhile, Sabrina and Cleo, in the book’s B-plot, suffer the pangs of estrangement - one hesitates to schedule a visit, the other feels stressed and isolated and less intimate than before. The protagonist, Harriet, is a burned-out medical professional considering a career change. What differentiates “Happy Place” from a standard love story is how much it’s a love-in-the-time-of-covid story, though inexplicably, neither covid nor the pandemic is referenced explicitly. All romances, be they comedies or dramas, demand that their leads get vulnerable and confess their feelings before is too late. “Happy Place” is funny at points, but it is also the closest that Henry has come to writing an old-school melodrama, a heart-rending plot that struggles to express the inexpressible. ![]()
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