Funny Story

Author: Emily Henry

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) | Adult & contemporary romance

Published on 25^th April 2024 by Penguin Books Ltd (Viking) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 400 pages
240mm x 156mm | 750g

A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author Emily Henry.

Daphne always loved the way her fiance Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it... right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.

Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children's librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra's ex, Miles Nowak. Scruffy and chaotic - with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads - Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she's either FBI or in witness protection.

he roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them? But it's all just for show, of course, because there's no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiance's new fiancee's ex... right?

One of my favourite authors' Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us

The master of witty repartee' Daily Mail 'Emily Henry never fails to deliver great banter and a romance to swoon over' Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones and the Six.

I've loved every single one of her books more than the previous, to the point that I cannot wait to see what her next title will do to me!' Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis.

Emily Henry's books are a gift, the perfect balance between steamy and sweet' V. E Schwab, GALLANT.

Nobody does it quite like Emily Henry' Casey McQuiston, RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE.

Our generation's answer to Nora Ephron' Sophie Cousens.

THIS TIME NEXT YEAR 'My newest automatic-buy author' Jodi Picoult, WISH YOU WERE HERE.

Emily Henry has become one of my favourite authors' Beth O'Leary, THE FLATSHARE.

As a storyteller, Henry is in a class of her own' Elle Kennedy, THE DEAL.