Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.
Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.
Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since.
Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees.
Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?
From the New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read, a sparkling new novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations.
Book #77 of 2021
REVIEW: This was the July pick for the Read Rovers Bookclub that I love to be a part of and my April Book of the Month pick and I absolutely LOVED it!! I must say first and foremost that I am completely jealous of the life of a travel writer. I would love to travel with my family and make a writing career out of it! I love the idea of these two complete opposite people being friends all because of the fact that they unknowingly grew up near each other. I normally don't really like when a book jumps around on the timeline but this just made perfect sense and made you love these too characters so much even though you wanted to strangle them because they wouldn't be honest with themselves or each other. The banter is fantastic. It's sarcastic and funny and real. Being an adult is never uncomplicated so a appreciate that all their baggage was part of the story and wasn't just forgotten when convenient. Overall this was a delightful, sweet, 5 star romantic comedy and a perfect summer read!
Publication Date: May 11, 2021