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LocationOakland
Call NoF HEN
TitleGreat big beautiful life / Emily Henry.
AuthorHenry, Emily, author.
Barcode529902
CollectionFiction
Summary"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 new novel from Emily Henry. 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 20th 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780593441244 (ebook)
International Standard Book Number 9780593954171 (Export edition)
International Standard Book Number 9780593441299 (hardcover)
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 813/.6 23/eng/20241028
Personal Name Henry, Emily, author.
Title Statement Great big beautiful life / Emily Henry.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice ©2025
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Berkley, 2025.
Physical Description 418 p. hardcover 24 cm.
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume nc rdacarrier
Summary, Etc. "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 new novel from Emily Henry. 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 20th 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Authors. Fiction
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Heiresses Fiction
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Islands. Fiction
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Man-woman relationships Fiction
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Romance. Fiction
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels. lcgft
Additional Physical Form Entry Online version: Henry, Emily. Great big beautiful life New York : Berkley, 2025. 9780593441244 (DLC) 2024050181