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Great Big Beautiful Life: Reese's Book Club
A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK ∙ AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ∙ Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping novel from Emily Henry.
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Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they’re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: to write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years—or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the twentieth century.
When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she’ll choose the person who’ll tell her story, there are three things keeping Alice’s head in the game.
One: Alice genuinely likes people, which means people usually like Alice—and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over.
Two: She’s ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication.
Three: Hayden Anderson, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition.
But the problem is, Margaret is only giving each of them pieces of her story. Pieces they can’t swap to put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they’re in the same room.
And it’s becoming abundantly clear that their story—just like the tale Margaret’s spinning—could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad . . . depending on who’s telling it.
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Reviews
This book grabbed me, sucked me in and let me live in its world until the very last page. Bravo!!
By Rakland
Beautiful making me smile! Love way Henry can make it spin!
By allison nolagirl
EH departs from her usual rom-com style in this more novelistic, women’s-fic love story. I commend her for pushing the boundary of her typical genre but it just fell short. I found myself more interested in the story within the story than in the main characters themselves. Fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid may enjoy more than fans of Abby Jiminez, Ali hazelwood, and Christina Lauren.
By talesbytess
I laughed and cried through this book. Emily is a master storyteller. I felt like I shared all the hopes, dreams and disappointments of all the people in this story. Fabulous book!
By Tizzy elvish
This was a series of intertwined love stories, a mystery, a tell-all, and a beautiful, vivid multigenerational tale. I loved every bit of it, with one tiny exception: why oh why does Alice need to wear watermelon earrings? She’s not 14. As much I I liked Hayden I just can’t see him falling for a woman with watermelon earrings. Everything rang so true in this book but that one detail punctured my image of her.
By ktinlo