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

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Let your intentions be good – embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds – and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve.” ― Grenville Kleiser Every year for the last decade, college sweethearts-turned-engaged couple Harriet and Wyn have joined their friends at a cottage in Maine for a weeklong getaway. It’s something they’ve always looked forward to—but not this year. Because Harriet and Wyn broke up six months ago, and they haven’t told their friends yet. Uncertain of how the group will take the news, they don’t want a cloud hanging over their very last trip to the cottage, which is going up for sale. harriet and i mirror each other in so many ways, and reading it in words across a book made me feel so seen and comforted. I was afraid they’d ask me what went wrong, and no matter what answer I cobbled together from the rubble, they’d see right through it.

Teach your children that they need nothing exterior to themselves to be happy, no person, place, or thing, and that true happiness is found within.” ― Neale Donald Walsch My home is a happy place to be. I bless everyone who enters, myself included. Pleasant experiences fill every room.” ― Louise Hay Betsy, we’re so often on the same wavelength. We should get together some time since we live kind of close to each other.Going to a happy place may help restore a healthy balance in one’s life and allow him or her to work things out.” ― Sayed Ahmed i really wanted this to be a book i would feel so connected to, and would always stay with me, but it’s not one of those books. don’t get me wrong, the book was painful at times. the writing was absolutely beautiful and some quotes hit me very hard, but i have many issues with the book that ultimately made it fall a bit short for me. Have you spoken to your parents and grandparents about their own life experiences? For Sir Lenny Henry, it’s been important to document his family’s stories.

i knew what was gonna come, i knew it. but nothing could've prepared me for the pain. reading about their breakup is some different kind of pain i never want to experience ever again. Finding this blog post by you was so incredibly timely for me. Maybe the cosmos are aligning planets for me and a higher power is whispering in my ear.The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.” ― Joyce Carol Oates to me, wyn was very absent from the book. especially in the “real life” chapters. he’s harriet’s fixation, but i don’t really feel like i know him. despite seeing how they got together, i still didn’t feel connected to his character. i wanted more from him. i enjoyed him more at the beginning when they were younger and everything was fresh between them, but this didn’t translate the whole way through. i get what he was going through at the end, but his character still felt very one dimensional to me. wyn is a sexy lamp.

I'm here to inspire you to explore new, mindful ways of being that move you to a happier, more fulfilled life. Watch So many of his details are slightly different, but my heart still sees him and whispers into my veins, You." Harriet was a contradictory but yet understandable character. The way she was painted as not only a brillant neurological chirurgien but as a woman, a broken one, was one of the most lovable and relatable aspect of the storytelling. She wasn’t portrayed as a passionate workaholic who loved her job, she wasn’t stereotyped with one and only one part of her personality. With her character Emily Henry highlighted how people can be complex in such beautiful and painful ways, that their personalities can be nuanced with infinity of colores. She explained gracefully how achieving your goals and purposes in life doesn’t specially rhythm with happiness. At one time, I might have been more certain about my happy places….gardening, playing cello/piano, being with family and close friends, writing, rowing, reading etc.does that make me miss the golden age of my life during which she was writing about both and also magic and also realism and also YA? sure. do i think that she is at her very best when she is writing for quirky teens? yeah. do i think her adult romances are often pale comparisons, in terms of their friendships and relationships and character depth and even humor and reality and emotion, to those books? for sure. Which is how they find themselves sharing the largest bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blue week they leave behind their daily lives; have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood; and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most. Bold Living + Wildly Successful | The Bold Life - [...] is your life. Be fearless, daring, juicy, wild, and crazy. Balance it with peace, quiet, and serenity. The alternative… he reaches over my shoulder and shuts the door himself. his hand stays there, to the left of my head.”

I loved the story of the wait at the patisserie! I almost feel like I was there. Just reading your story gave me a grin on my insides. 🙂 It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place unless he is first in a happy state.” ― Benjamin Whichcote I will always try to be happy. I don’t think people really understand the value of happiness until they know what it’s like to be in that very, very dark place. It’s not romantic. Not even a little.” ― Sarah SilvermanDo you think that you deserve to find your happy place? It’s always there waiting for you with open arms, without judgment. i adored reading harriet and wyns past chapters. they had such an enjoyable connection, which made reading their present day chapters so heartbreaking. their entire journey was one i felt super invested in from the beginning and was rooting for them every step of the way. and i really, really loved how EH wrote harriets feelings about wyn. very poetic. very romantic. i actually think this book has some of EHs better writing! My happy place is where the weather is warm, the skies are blue and the air smells like sault and sun lotion.” harriet is so me coded “he’s a golden boy. i’m a girl whose life has been drawn in shades of gray.” GORL IM CRYING