Libby wants to get away before the baby is born and have a rest away from her two young daughters (aged four and two respectively) and begs Nora to go with her for the summer. Libby is five months pregnant with her third child and Nora is worried there might be trouble in paradise and/or something wrong with Libby’s health. In the past few months, Nora and Libby’s connection has stuttered and something is clearly wrong. Sunshine Falls is where Dusty’s famous book is set and Libby is a mega-fan. Nora and Charlie have had nothing to do with one another since then but they bump into each other (repeatedly) when Nora and Libby go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for a month-long holiday.

She’s trying to interest Wharton House books in Dusty’s latest novel but the pair do not get off to a good start.įast forward two years and the book Charlie passed on is a runaway bestseller and about to be a movie. When the story begins, Nora has just been dumped by her boyfriend who has decided to move to a small town where he’s met someone else (this is a thing that keeps happening to Nora) and she’s late for a lunch with editor Charlie Lastra. Nora’s star client is a temperamental, high maintenance woman by the name of Dusty Fielding. Nora is fierce generally but when it comes to Libby she will do anything to make her sister happy and ensure her safety and well-being, including putting her own dreams on hold or passing on them completely.

When Nora was 20 and Libby was 16, their mother died suddenly and Nora was Libby’s guardian. Her father walked out on her mother when she was still pregnant with Nora’s younger sister, Libby and it was just the three of them for a long time. Nora Stephens is a literary agent in New York. And the narration is stellar so there’s also that. While People We Meet on Vacation and Book Lovers are very different books, they have the same vibe to them and the same glorious witty banter so I’m confident those who enjoyed last year’s book will enjoy this year’s too. (I’m saving Beach Read for when I need a pick-me-up.) This year’s offering, Book Lovers was on my radar because I enjoyed People We Meet On Vacation so much. In fact, the main reason I picked up last year’s Emily Henry release, People We Meet on Vacation was because Julia Whelan was narrating. If she narrated more romance titles I’d be a very happy camper. It’s no secret that Julia Whelan is one of my favourite narrators.

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