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By: Emily Henry

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

An insightful, delightful, instant #1 New York Times bestseller from the author of Funny Story.

“One of my favorite authors.”—Colleen Hoover

One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming...

Nora Stephens' life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby.

Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away—with visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute.

If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.

Finally!

This was the best book I've read in a while! I highly recommend it!

My Heart is Happy

Julian Whalen is one of my top 5 favorite narrators. I searched her name to see if there are any novels she’s read that might pique my interest and happened upon PWMoV. After binging on true crime books & documentaries, dark mysteries, and horror flicks, I needed something light.What I didn’t expect is to find Emily Henry. EH is the author I needed without knowing how badly I needed her. Once I finished that book, I immediately downloaded this one and it didn’t disappoint! I find myself in reading funks and get agitated by awful narrators or dull stories. I didn’t feel that way with either of these books at any point. The two novels got me excited to put away laundry, clean, and complete the mundane tasks that I work on while listening.

So glad I found her.

A new favorite!

This book was fun, heartbreaking, and intelligent written with well developed characters. The narration was excellent. I laughed, I cried…I almost started it over from the beginning as soon as it ended. Just like the characters in the novel, I didn’t want a good book to end!

Overall good, but very wordy & obsessive in places

Generally a good story, but there were many places where it got overly wordy and excessively drawn out. I used the skip ahead 30 seconds button often. Interestingly, the part where she's talking about editing the book within the book, had me talking back and saying "author, edit thyself!" Other times, it had me laughing out loud. So overall good, but not great.

Good story. Didn’t need the gratuitous “F***”s.

Responsible Guardian guide: Lots of sex. Lots of “F” words. Not something you would listen to with kids around.

The narrator was amazing!

Overall I enjoyed the book. However the characters would throw in an “F” word at random times that made no sense and took away from the moment. At first I was like, ok. Then I was like, this was unnecessary. Finally about half way I would just cringe because it stuck out in a very bad, and completely unnecessary way.