Beach Read

　　專寫愛情爛漫，天真美好的羅曼小說家，遇上純文學的作家。兩位風格迥異的作家從陌生人到朋友，最後走向愛情，都源至一場夏日挑戰賽。

　　珍妮艾利(January Andrews)是位羅曼史作家，總是相信真愛與美滿結局。直到她父親過世，她繼承一間海邊度假小屋，同時發現了父親多年來的婚外情。這些秘密衝擊珍妮艾利的三觀，在這樣的矛盾下，她再也寫不出東西。直到她遇見海邊小屋旁的鄰居，奧古斯特(Augustus Everett)。

　　奧古斯特正遭逢創作生涯的低潮，寫作面臨瓶頸。一場意外的閒聊，讓他們決定在這個夏天交換工作，換奧古斯特寫一本令人開心的羅曼史、由珍妮艾利創作下一本美國文學巨作。

　　於是今年夏天，珍妮艾利必須帶著奧古斯特去海邊看夕陽、尋找羅曼史靈感，而奧古斯特必須和珍妮艾利一起去作訪問、蒐集資料。一切只是為了創作，絕對不會有人愛上對方的…對吧？

　　 (文／博客來編譯)

FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION AND BOOK LOVERS!

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. Really.

Emily Henry writes stories about love and family for both teens and adults. She studied creative writing at Hope College and the New York Center for Art & Media Studies, and now spends most of her time in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the part of Kentucky just beneath it. Find her on Instagram @EmilyHenryWrites.