Great Big Beautiful Life TPB

Description

Great Big Beautiful Life is Emily Henry’s latest standalone trade paperback, published on April 22, 2025. It blends her signature romantic humor with deeper themes, wrapped in a dual-timeline structure and a high-stakes “rival-writers” premise. Here’s an engaging breakdown:

• The Competition
  Alice Scott, an effervescent entertainment journalist, and Hayden Anderson, a brooding Pulitzer‑winning biographer, both arrive on the coastal Little Crescent Island vying to write the biography of Margaret Ives—a glamorous, reclusive former tabloid heiress no one has seen in decades. Both are granted a one-month trial to win Margaret’s trust and secure the job.

• Unreliable Narratives & Hidden Histories
  Margaret offers each writer differing pieces of her life story—wrapped under an NDA. As Alice and Hayden dig deeper, they clash and connect over competing ambitions, unraveling family secrets that may redefine their understanding of truth and storytelling.