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Book Lovers

The Sunday Times bestselling enemies to lovers, laugh-out-loud rom com about two publishing rivals

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Book Lovers

By: Emily Henry
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
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One month. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming...

Nora is a cut-throat literary agent at the top of her game. Her whole life is books.

Charlie is an editor with a gift for creating bestsellers. And he's Nora's work nemesis.

Nora has been through enough break-ups to know she's the woman men date before they find their happy-ever-after. That's why Nora's sister has persuaded her to swap her desk in the city for a month's holiday in Sunshine Falls, North Carolina. It's a small town straight out of a romance novel, but instead of meeting sexy lumberjacks, handsome doctors or cute bartenders, Nora keeps bumping into...Charlie.

She's no heroine. He's no hero. So can they take a page out of an entirely different book?

Set over one sizzling August, BOOK LOVERS is the new chemistry-filled 'rivals to lovers' romcom from New York Times #1 bestseller Emily Henry


WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT EMILY HENRY

'The hottest book of the summer - the pages simply sizzle!' JOSIE SILVER

'Full of banter, heat, and sexual tension. A gorgeous page-turner of a novel' LAURA JANE WILLIAMS

'Full of sexual tension and tantalizing possibility.' BETH O'LEARY

'Emily Henry is my newest automatic-buy author . . . a heartfelt, funny, tender escape that you wish could last forever' JODI PICOULT

'A compulsively readable book full of sparkling wit, dazzling prose and a romance that grabbed me by the heart and wouldn't let me go.' ABBY JIMENEZ

'Funny, and seriously sizzling' BEST

'Original, sparkling bright and layered with feeling. If whipcrack banter and foggy sexual tension is your catnip, you'll adore this book' SALLY THORNE

'What an absolute flipping triumph of a novel!!! I LOVED it ' EMMA COOPER


© Emily Henry 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Friendship Genre Fiction Romance Romantic Comedy Small Town & Rural Comedy Funny Feel-Good Heartfelt Witty
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Critic reviews

Schitt's Creek for book nerds (Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of One Last Stop)
Her best yet (Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising)
One of my favourite authors (Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us)
One of the most enjoyable books you'll read this year
Sizzles on each page. This romcom is perfection
Her characters fizz like good champagne (JOSIE SILVER, author of One Night on the Island)
A LOL enemies-to-lovers rom-com that is calling out to be read on a beach
This book is perfect. I couldn't love it more (CRESSIDA McLAUGHLIN, author of Christmas Carols and a Cornish Cream Tea)
When I read an Emily Henry novel I always feel a particularly undignified kind of jealousy, because I wish I'd written it. Book Lovers is no different: I loved every page, every line. It's so smart, so funny and so sexy. Nora and Charlie have sizzling chemistry - they even make discussing a contract hot. Readers are going to fall head over heels for these two (Beth O'Leary, author of The Roadtrip)
You KNOW I love a book-and a writer-when I bust out my trusty ballpoint and absolutely maul the pages...and that's exactly what I just did to the divine Emily Henry. I could not devour Book Lovers fast enough. Emily Henry is pure delight. I'm utterly enchanted by her wry, self-aware sense of humour, the relish that she brings to every cleverly crafted sentence, and her irrepressible love for love (Katherine Center, New York Times bestselling author of Things You Save in a Fire and How to Walk Away)
All stars
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slow beginning but definitely worth it. flew through chapters 10 to 37. very good read.

really enjoyed this book.

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A great fun read with good banter for the MFC/MMC and a sweet romance build. Alongside a cracking sibling subplot. Sweet but nothing particularly epic (hence 4 stars not 5). Narration brilliant; Julie Whelan always a winner 5/5.

A fluffy story

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You have ruined me … I loved it all! I was also feeling some of the things that they were feeling so the book was perfection for me … god bless you!

Fuckin perfection!

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Emily Henry is an autobuy author for me. Her writing just sucks me in and this book no was exception. I loved how real and authentic this was. It was such an effortless read with so much soul. I really liked the big city vs small town vibe of the story and the little backstories we get along the way. The romance had a great slow burn and the story sizzled with chemistry the whole way. The romance wasnt thw front and center of this story. It was a great story about family, sacrifices and loss too. Great characters and a great story and I can't wait for more. Loved the audio. Julia Whelan has to be one of my favourite female narrators her voice is so adaptable.

Great narration

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a close second favourite by Emily Henry, not quite pinching the top spot from Beach Read but one I've read twice and love the audiobook of

another winner by Emily Henry

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