Great Big Beautiful Life
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9760593441291
ISBN
9780593441299

Great Big Beautiful Life

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Author
Henry, Emily

On Sale Date: April 22, 2025

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 new novel from Emily Henry.

Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And theyā€™re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen in yearsā€”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 20th Century.

When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which sheā€™ll choose the person whoā€™ll tell her story, there are three things keeping Aliceā€™s head in the game.

One: Alice genuinely likes people, which means people usually like Aliceā€”and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over.

Two: Sheā€™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 canā€™t swap to put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time theyā€™re in the same room.

And itā€™s becoming abundantly clear that their storyā€”just like the tale Margaretā€™s spinningā€”could be a mystery, tragedy, or love balladā€¦depending on whoā€™s telling it.

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