Happy Place: A shimmering new novel from #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Emily Henry

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Every year, they take a holiday from their lives to drink far too much wine with their favourite people in the world. Happy became the premise for Fearne’s podcast launched in 2018. To date, we have featured a guest list of amazing personalities, thought-leaders and change-makers. They include Stephen Fry discussing mental health and us posing questions to Hillary Rodham Clinton on feminism. We’ve learned from and laughed with Gary Barlow, Elizabeth Gilbert, Alicia Keyes and Jada Pinkett Smith among others.

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There was no deeper meaning to Happy Place- it's as simple as it gets: Just communicate with each other and half of your problems will not exist. Am sorry yall, I really wanted to love it. But it didn't make me happy. I do think am being generous with the rating. harriet and wyn are such unique characters compared to emily’s other characters. a lot of it is the same i can’t lie, but still, i get attached to them like glue. they feel so deeply and love so intensely. even though this entire book is all in harriet’s pov you still get a full characterization of wyn. and not only that. the side characters, this found family. all these characters have so much personality and depth. ugh i’d take a bullet for all of them fr.This story just brought out so many feelings within me that I can’t really articulate. There was almost a sense of desperation to it. By which I mean that these two characters were searching for something within themselves. Of worth, of love, belonging, to be seen as you are, to just be enough and Emily Henry dissected and captured all of those uncomfortable emotions so well. There isn’t a thing I would change about it. Wyn and Harry honestly had what dreams are made off. Everything about them two together felt soul-level right. It was a treat to see them fall in love (again). harriet is me, i am her. she puts other peoples needs and feelings before her own to keep the peace, the way she has an inability to show others her emotions, especially during the break up bc she fears she will be a burden really hit close to home. her character was frustrating at times, but nonetheless she was so loveable and understandable bc her upbringing and family dynamic affected her as she grew up. she was never taught how to fight with the ones she loves and that took a toll on the way she communicates in relationships. but i just constantly wanted to grab her by the shoulders, shake her and scream “ YOU ARE ENOUGH” i love her character sm, it was definitely bc i related to her in an unnerving way *cough* i also hate my job. her love for wyn was devastatingly beautiful, the way she loves and feels is so deep. This is a place to connect. To listen to the most interesting minds on the planet, and engage with the conversation. the bridge of the archer: “they see right through me, can you see right through me? i see right through me”, encapsulates this book perfectly.

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my eyes were rolling. if that old wives tale about the wind is true, i’d be so blind rn i wouldn’t have been able to finish reading the book. the only friend i remotely related to was sabrina. the way she was the “problem solver” and the one that always tries to bring everyone together and has this desperate need to keep everything the same. felt. so hard. but that’s it. i didn’t like what she did at the end at all. and the rest of the friends were not it for me. i just didn’t enjoy them. I wanted to be special, Harriet,” he says. “And since I wasn’t, I settled for trying to make everyone love me. I know how ridiculous that sounds, but it’s true. I spent my whole life chasing things and people who could make me feel like I mattered." like that exact situation happened at least 3 times. that’s not a lot, but it’s strange it’s happened thrice. i truly feel connected to harriet. she was such a fleshed out character. beautifully written. she is me and i am her. her love towards her friends, her thoughts about herself, her conflicting emotions towards her family, even down to her thoughts about her job made me feel so seen.Maybe I need to know that he remembers that he hasn't totally forgotten what it feels like to love me, while I'm trapped with him buried onto my heart, my, brain, my lungs, my skin."

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also, people can have hobbies and passions that exist outside of making money. that’s a normal healthy thing to do. this is like a larger issue relating to capitalism and triggering my fight or flight but not everything has to be mercenary. that so often ruins passions and it annoys me when so many people do that. why can’t shorty just like pottery??Henry’s new novel is a slow-burn romance and an ode to the chosen family we need when everything gets too complicated…The beach-read master hooks us again.” The only way I can bear loving anyone this much is knowing it will never turn to poison. Knowing we’ll give each other up before we can destroy each other.” And Harriet, girly pop, please, have a little bit more of self-steem and respect for yourself. Stop being a people pleaser and try to save everyone. ! Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple - they go together like bread and butter, gin and tonic, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Every year for the past decade, they have left behind their lives to drink far too much wine and soak up the sea air with their favourite people in the world. Except this year, they are lying through their teeth. Harriet and Wyn broke up six months ago. And they still haven't told anyone.

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there’s this unique connection i get from emily henry’s writing style that at this point should be studied. the way she not only describes feelings but gives me this ache that’s so deep and penetrating. it’s so tender omfg Every touch, every word had its own importance in the way their relationship flourished and tarnished. Their love had an elegiac tone in how Harriet was describing the "lose" of the love of her life in the present chapters and an eternal essence in how their love seemed unbreakable in the past chapters. Harriet is a people pleaser, she will tell her friends she's doing just fine and dandy when really she's struggling, because she wants to make sure everyone else around her is happy before she is. Harriet is a surgical resident who has lost love with her job, but she won't tell anyone because she doesn't want to let those down around her who have supported her for years. Harriet's parents sacrificed so much for her to be a surgeon, but when she doesn't find happiness waking up early and going to work, Harriet feels like telling her family and friends will drive them away from her. Wyn is a golden charmer who is dealing with the loss of his father. I absolutely loved hearing how Harriet and Wyn met, but it broke my heart when they were telling their story of why they broke up because they felt like they weren't good enough for each other, but they really never had a chance to sit down and talk about their issues, so the week long vacation at the cottage gave them plenty of time to talk to each other while playing their parts of the happy couple. I often find myself connecting on a personal level with Harriet, and making sure those around me are the happiest before myself.

And it feels like taking a shot of tequila every time I hear it. Like I could get drunk on the sound of you. Or hungover when I go too long without you." this is my last straw. EH broke me, i need someone to fix my shattered heart. how am i ever supposed to move on from wyn and harriet 🥲 i want their love, i want their respect, i want their passion. i want everything they have. laying in bed wide awake reading the book when i was supposed to go be bed hours ago.. now, do i love or hate that feeling? i certainly wasn't able to put the book down because it was so emotional and i needed closure.