02238cam a2200325 i 4500 1710770361 TxAuBib 20241113120000.0 191004s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019044690 9780593817414 0593817419 (OCoLC)1122689559 TxAuBib rda Henry, Emily, author. Beach read / Emily Henry. First edition. New York : Jove, 2020. 361 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes readers guide with discussion questions. "A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They're polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block. Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She'll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he'll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. But as the summer stretches on, January discovers a gaping plot hole in the story she's been telling herself about her own life, and begins to wonder what other things she might have gotten wrong, including her ideas about the man next door."--Provided by publisher. 20241113. Authors Fiction. Vacation homes Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Romance fiction. fast