Michelle Min Sterling on her dystopian climate thriller 'Camp Zero' Kayla Cottingham on her sapphic YA horror 'This Delicious Death' I was like, 'This is actually pretty devastating for these people.' I think that's why this book might make readers cry. And then when I was writing about a couple who'd been together for so long and then broken up, I just couldn't really find a way to thrust them together that felt as slapstick as it did in my mind. So I thought that would be really fun to take into writing “Happy Place.” I thought I'd be writing this screwball comedy. They seem like such a fun, silly concept. And then they'd get back together at the end. They would have the couple actually split up so that they could have them flirting or considering other relationships, and it wouldn't be portraying infidelity. Haley Lerner: Where did you get the first inkling of an idea for “Happy Place”?Įmily Henry: I was watching a bunch of comedies of remarriages, which are a subgenre of movies from the '40s that were basically like these ridiculous, screwball romantic comedies that were being used to get around these decency and morality codes that were being enforced upon Hollywood. Excerpts from the interview are below, and you can hear the full interview below.Įmily Henry in conversation with Haley Lerner Henry spoke with GBH News about the novel, out today, April 25, and her growing success. With an active social media presence ( 270,000 Instagram followers and counting) and more than 10 million views on TikToks about her books, she is at the top of the industry. Her three previous romances (“Beach Read,” “People We Meet on Vacation” and “Book Lovers”) are all being turned into movies. Henry’s books, which center on women dealing with pivotal changes in their lives, can be found on recommendation lists and favored by celebrities like Drew Barrymore. Stuck being closer than ever, the couple can’t ignore their pull to each other, while also grappling with the reasons they broke up in the first place. Though they broke up months before their yearly getaway with friends, they decide to pretend they’re still together in order to hang onto a tradition that makes them feel happiest. Her latest novel, “ Happy Place,” centers around longtime couple Harriet and Wyn.

1 New York Times bestseller Emily Henry is famous for her tear-inducing romantic novels.

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