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Published 14:40 18 Jul 2025 BST
Updated 15:03 18 Jul 2025 BST
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Emily Henry has been one of my favourite authors ever since I picked up a copy of her novel Book Lovers.
The author's work feels as comforting as a Nora Ephron movie, but for a new generation.
Her stories are relatable, they're real, and her characters feel like people in our own lives.
Henry has penned some of my all-time favourite contemporary fiction novels over the years, so I've been eagerly awaiting the release of her latest book, Great Big Beautiful Life.
Fans of the author have been giving it rave reviews since it was released earlier this year.
The book has just landed in Irish bookshops today, April 24th, but I just know it will live up to the hype.
Henry never lets her readers down when it comes to a complex, well-written rom-com. She always delivers.
'Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of an heiress with more than a few plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry. When Margaret Ives, the famously reclusive heiress, invites eternal optimist Alice Scott to the balmy Little Crescent Island, Alice knows this is it: her big break. And even more rare: a chance to impress her family with a Serious Publication.
'The catch? Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud, Hayden Anderson, is sure of the same thing. The proposal? A one-month trial period to unearth the truth behind one of the most scandalous families of the 20th Century, after which she’ll choose who will tell her story.
'The problem? Margaret is only giving each of them tantalising pieces. Pieces they can’t put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they’re in the same room. And it’s becoming abundantly clear that their story–just like the tale Margaret’s spinning–could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad … depending on who’s telling it.'
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