<span style="font-size:12px;">The dazzling new love story and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick from the TikTok sensation and Sunday Times bestselling author of Beach Read and Funny Story.</span>
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<span style="font-size:12px;">AN INSTANT NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!</span>
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<span style="font-size:12px;">‘Emily knows how to craft a love story like the all-time greats’ -- Taylor Jenkins Reid, bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo</span>
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<span style="font-size:12px;">‘A new Emily Henry novel is an event, ushering in longer days and promises of summer’ The Skinny</span>
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<span style="font-size:12px;">When Margaret Ives, the famously reclusive heiress, invites eternal optimist Alice Scott to the balmy Little Crescent Island, Alice knows this is it: her big break. And even more rare: a chance to impress her family with a Serious Publication.</span>
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<span style="font-size:12px;">The catch? Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud, Hayden Anderson, is sure of the same thing.</span>
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<span style="font-size:12px;">The proposal? A one-month trial period to unearth the truth behind one of the most scandalous families of the 20th Century, after which she’ll choose who’ll tell her story.</span>
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<span style="font-size:12px;">The problem? Margaret is only giving each of them tantalising pieces. Pieces they can’t put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they’re in the same room.</span>
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<span style="font-size:12px;">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.</span>
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<span style="font-size:12px;">‘With a delicious slow-burn romance, a perfectly grumpy hero, and a setting that comes to life, this one checked all my boxes’ -- Laurie Gilmore, bestselling author of The Pumpkin Spice Cafe</span>
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<span style="font-size:12px;">‘One of my favourite authors’ -- Colleen Hoover, bestselling author of It Ends With Us</span>
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<span style="font-size:12px;">‘I've loved every single one of her books more than the previous’ -- Ali Hazelwood, bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis</span>