Beach Read: Two writers,one holiday.A romcom waiting to happen Emily Henry Paperback

Two novelists with opposite ideas about what fiction is for end up in neighbouring beach houses and agree to swap genres for a summer. Emily Henry sets a writer of happy endings against a writer of literary fiction, each of them stuck, each daring the other to work in unfamiliar territory. The banter carries the book, but grief, family disappointment and creative failure sit underneath it, and the romance develops through shared work as much as through attraction. This Penguin paperback runs to 368 pages. Worth knowing before you start: • Two writers trading genres as the central premise • Contemporary romance with a strong comic register • Themes of grief and family running under the humour • 368 pages in paperback from Penguin For readers of contemporary romance and romantic comedy, published by Penguin and available from Boipoka.