Great Big Beautiful Life
by Emily Henry
4/5
Berkley 418 pages April 22, 2025
Two writers, sunny Alice Scott and serious Hayden Anderson, are invited to a small Georgia island by Margaret Ives, a reclusive heiress from a famous tabloid family, who is finally ready to tell her life story. Each gets a month to win the job of writing her biography, and Margaret's story unfolds alongside theirs.
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Henry tries something bigger here: a rivals romance wrapped around a family saga, with Margaret's decades of secrets told in flashback. The banter between Alice and Hayden is as quick as ever, and the island setting is lovely. The two halves don't always pull their weight equally, and the historical story sometimes outshines the romance, which may delight or frustrate depending on why readers come to Henry. Four worms — her most ambitious book, if not her tightest.
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