They are complete opposites, but Henry has made it work. It had me smiling and instantly reassured that I would have fun with these characters. Henry grabbed my attention right from the first page, introducing the reader to Poppy and Alex in a most unconventional way. It even seemed serendipitous when the book opened with the main characters stuck on vacation amid a rainstorm. I read it within 24 hours, and didn’t even mind that I couldn’t read this one while outside under sunny skies and warmer temperatures. WHICH MEANS I should have known that it would be raining buckets the week it was released with colder than average temperatures making it feel more like fall than spring.īut a little rain didn’t stop me from picking it up-visiting a physical bookstore for the first time in over a year (Yay for vaccines!)-and diving into it immediately, a warm cup of tea nearby instead of something icy. I told myself that was okay because then I could read it closer to summer and enjoy the full experience, imagining myself reading it under blue skies with a cold beverage nearby. I won an early copy of Beach Read last year but I wasn’t as lucky with People We Meet on Vacation-so I had to wait like the rest of the world. My thoughtsĮmily Henry’s latest release was my most anticipated novel of the year after Beach Read topped my list of favorite books for 2020. What could possibly go wrong?įrom the New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read, a sparkling new novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together-lay everything on the table, make it all right. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything.
For most of the year they live far apart-she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown-but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. She has insatiable wanderlust he prefers to stay home with a book.
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