A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common.
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?
Daphne is my kind of character. Bookish and practical, but trying to figure things out after her breakup. What I like about Miles is that he kept surprising Daphne. She thought she had him all figured out, but he surprised her at every turn. I enjoyed watching their relationship develop and how they discovered new information about each other.
In my book, Emily Henry is right up there with Abby Jiminez and Elin Hilderbrand as must-read summer authors.
Details:
- Funny Story by Emily Henry
- Pages: 395
- Publisher: Berkley
- Publication Date: 4/23/2024
- Buy it Here!
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