Book Lovers
By Emily Henry
- Genre
- Romance & Contemporary Relationships
- Publisher
- Berkley (Penguin Random House)
- Publication year
- 2022
- ISBN
- 9780593334836
Nora Stephens, a ruthless literary agent, is dragged on a sisters' trip to a small North Carolina town, where she keeps colliding with Charlie Lastra, a brusque editor from her New York world. Emily Henry's romantic comedy inverts the small-town love-story formula. It was an instant #1 New York...
Nora Stephens is the woman the Hallmark heroine's big-city boyfriend leaves behind: a sharklike literary agent who loves her job, her spreadsheets and her sister, and has been dumped by a parade of men chasing simpler lives. Emily Henry's beloved rom-com sends her to a picturesque North Carolina town for a sisters' getaway and keeps throwing her together with Charlie Lastra, an equally prickly editor from her own Manhattan orbit. The genius of Book Lovers is its affectionate inversion of the small-town romance: two ambitious, guarded, book-obsessed people who bond precisely over refusing to be softened. Henry writes sparkling banter and real emotional depth, folding in sisterhood, grief and the fear of not being the 'right' kind of woman beneath the wit. It is a rom-com for people who read rom-coms, self-aware without being cynical. For readers who want humor, heart and a heroine allowed to be sharp, it is Henry near her best - and a deserving award winner.