Great Big Beautiful Life

　　《愛在字裡行間》作者、暢銷羅曼史天后艾蜜莉．亨利新書
　　瑞絲薇絲朋讀書會選書
　　各大媒體紛紛選為2025最受期待書籍

　　為了角逐撰寫傳奇人物傳記的機會，兩個實力相當的作家拚了！

　　艾麗絲．史考特是個樂天派，她不斷地在等待寫作生涯的突破。海頓．安德森則是普立茲獎得主，是個筆鋒犀利的名作家。他們不約而同來到了小新月島上，都是出自於同一個原因：為了見一位避世隱居的奇女子，角逐替她寫傳記的機會。瑪格麗特．艾斯的名字曾經出現在不少八卦報刊上，充滿榮華富貴的一生也穿插了許多悲劇，她來自二十世紀最出名、也背負了最多醜聞的名門望族。

　　瑪格麗特邀請艾麗絲和海頓以一個月的時間進行採訪和擬稿，看了兩人的大綱之後，她再決定要選哪位作家替她執筆傳記。面對這個挑戰，艾麗絲謹記著三件事：

　　一、艾麗絲喜歡跟人交流，這也表示她常常獲得很多人的喜愛，更何況她有一個月的時間爭取瑪格麗特的友誼。

　　二、她全心全意地想要這份機會，更想利用這本傳記贏得家人的讚賞。

　　三、普立茲獎得主海頓．安德森竟然用充滿敵意的眼神盯著她，這豈不代表了他把艾麗絲視為旗鼓相當的對手？

　　問題是，瑪格麗特只給艾麗絲和海頓零碎的故事片段，而由於他們簽了保密協定，兩人不能交換資訊以拼湊完整故事。更別提到當海頓跟艾麗絲共處一室時，他們之間總是有種特別的吸引力…兩人的故事就像瑪格麗特的人生一樣，可能發展成懸疑小說、悲劇故事或羅曼史，端看是誰來執筆。(文／博客來外文館)

　　Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping novel from Emily Henry.

　　Named a Most Anticipated book of 2025 by The New York Times ∙ Rolling Stone ∙ People ∙ USA Today ∙ Harper’s Bazaar ∙ Marie Claire ∙ Bustle ∙ Reader’s Digest ∙ BBC ∙ PopSugar ∙ SheReads ∙ Paste ∙ and more!

　　Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they’re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: to write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years—or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the twentieth century.

　　When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she’ll choose the person who’ll tell her story, there are three things keeping Alice’s head in the game.

　　One: Alice genuinely likes people, which means people usually like Alice—and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over.

　　Two: She’s ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication.

　　Three: Hayden Anderson, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition.

　　But the problem is, Margaret is only giving each of them pieces of her story. Pieces they can’t swap to put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they’re in the same room.

　　And it’s becoming abundantly clear that their story—just like the tale Margaret’s spinning—could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad . . . depending on who’s telling it.