Beach Read

Emily Henry

May 2020 · Sold by Penguin

About this eBook

FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION AND BOOK LOVERS!

A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.

Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast.

They’re polar opposites.

In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block.

Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.

Ratings and reviews

Beach Read is my first read by Emily Henry, and it was not what I was expecting, but it did keep me entertained. This story is about two people who meet in college in a writing class; one was infatuated while the other thought they were nemeses. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. Years later, they find themselves living next door to each other, both suffering from writer's block due to personal issues in their own lives. To help each other with writer's block, they make a bet, a wager of sorts, since they're both broke and need to keep promises made to their agents. However, all bets are off!

Beach Read is a really cute and funny romance novel. It's about two authors who are complete opposites, but they end up falling in love while writing a book together. I loved the characters and the witty banter. It's a perfect beach read!

In this enchanting story, a romance writer who has lost her faith in love and a literary author struggling with writer’s block find themselves entangled in a summer-long challenge. As they push each other to break out of their respective creative and emotional ruts, their journey becomes a transformative exploration of love, passion, and the meaning of a happy ending.

About the author

Emily Henry is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of People We Meet on Vacation and Beach Read. She studied creative writing at Hope College, and now spends most of her time in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the part of Kentucky just beneath it. Find her on Instagram @emilyhenrywrites.