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  • By: Emily Henry
  • Narrated by: Julia Whelan
  • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (271 ratings)

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Summary

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A shimmering, joyful novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1
New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author Emily Henry

Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it...right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.

Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children's librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra's ex, Miles Nowak.

Scruffy and chaotic-with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads -Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she's either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?

But it's all just for show, of course, because there's no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé's new fiancée's ex...right?

'One of my favourite authors' Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us

'The master of witty repartee' Daily Mail

'Emily Henry never fails to deliver great banter and a romance to swoon over' Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones and the Six


©2024 Emily Henry (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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An Emily Henry book never fails to make me emotional

Yet another Emily Henry book that hit a little too close to home and made me feel all the emotions. Although this isn’t my favourite book of hers, definitely one of my favourite ways that the fake dating has been done in a book.

The audiobook narration deserves 5 stars. Single narrators have an extremely difficult job in portraying all the characters in a book, particularly the MMC in this case, and on this occasion, the narration was beautifully done.

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Such a feel good book

Emily henry to me is the queen of feel good / comfort reading.
Funny story was cute, beautiful, sexy at times and again a book about self discovery, friendship and chosen family as much as romantic love.
Well worth it!

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The perfect book

I loved everything about this book. It’s so well written, the characters are complex and story is perfection. Topped off by an amazing performance by the narrator and I’ll be recommending this book widely.

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it's good so fra

if you take a shot any time Whelan reads "he says", "I say" or "she says" you're gonna die of alcohol poisoning really fast... other than that its a nice book. but that part can be distracting at times.. especially when it's said 20times within a conversation.....

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Best Emily Henry yet!

By far my best Emily Henry book!
As always, fantastic narrating by Julia Whelan ❤️

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I laughed and I cried

Great story, lots of humour but also touched on some childhood trauma and how it impacts adults

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Amazing

Emily Henry AND Julia Whelan ? Couldn't be anything but FIVE STARS!!! Fantastic and moving story, flawed characters and the best narration possible.

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Her best yet

Legitimately cannot recommend this enough. The way EmHen writes such vivid, realistic, and beautifully flawed characters takes my breath away every time, but this has smashed it out the park. I know some people criticise the ‘I say, he says’ (and there’s a lot of it), but for me, this just lends itself to the feeling of really inhabiting her characters. There’s a reality and closeness that she infuses into Daphne and Miles that doesn’t just involve you, but almost places you in the story with them. Narrated perfectly (as always), Funny Story already takes the top spot of comfort listen. If you need some comfort and catharsis, do yourself a favour and play this novel.

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Easy listen and funny parts too

A lovely story restoring your faith in relationships and friendships and a reminder of how parents don’t always do the right thing.

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Emily Henry's best yet

Great characters. Perfect banter - I don’t remember laughing out loud to a book so much recently. Julia’s narration is even better than usual.

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