Summary of Beach Read by Emily Henry

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Chapter by Chapter Summary and analysis of Emily Henry ́s book Beach Read, including detailed summaries of the chapters of the original book.

Original Book Plot:

A romance writer who has lost faith in love and a literary writer who is stuck in a rut participate in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.
Augustus Everett is a well-known literary fiction author. January Andrews is a bestselling romance author. He kills off his entire cast when she writes a happily ever after.
They are diametrically opposed.
In fact, the only thing they have in common is that they'll be living in neighboring beach houses for the next three months, broke and stymied by writer's block.
Until one hazy evening when one thing leads to another and they strike a deal to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will write the next Great American Novel. She'll take him on rom-com-worthy field trips, and he'll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). No one will fall in love after finishing a book. Really.

• Language: English
• Publisher: C.B. Publishers
• Release date: Jun 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005763756

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Emily Henry is an American author who is best known for her romance novels Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation.

Her debut novel, The Love That Split the World, was released in January 2016.

Henry resides and writes in Cincinnati and the Northern Ohio River region of Kentucky. She attended Hope College and the now-defunct New York Center for Art & Media Studies, where she majored in creative writing. She works full-time as a writer and proofreader.

In 2016, she released her first young adult novel. Following the publication of several young adult novels, Henry's first adult fiction romance, Beach Read, was released in 2020.

Her work has appeared in Buzzfeed, Oprah Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, The Skimm, Shondaland, and other publications.

OVERVIEW

Beach Read by Emily Henry is a contemporary romance novel set to be released in May 2020.

The story is set in the late 2010s and follows 29-year-old protagonist January Andrews, a millennial romance author dealing with her father's death and a recent breakup while attempting to write her next bestseller with a shattered view of romance.

January's first-person narration describes her changing perspective on the world, as well as her family history and college memories.

PLOT

January Andrews arrives in North Bear Shores, Michigan, a small tourist town on Lake Michigan's shores. She's broke, owes her publisher a book, and is suffering from writer's block. While she used to be able to write romance stories with ease, the discovery of her father's affair, which she discovered after his death, has tainted her view of love.

Her entire life had been shaped by her family's love and the romance she witnessed between her parents, and she now wonders how much of that was real. January's six-year relationship with her ex-boyfriend Jacques ended after her father died, leaving her homeless and broken.

January must now relocate to her father's hidden second home, a lake house he shared with his mistress, Sonya. Sonya gave her the key and a letter from her late father shortly after the funeral. The goal for January is to complete a manuscript and prepare the house for sale by the end of the summer.

Augustus Gus Everett, January's college rival, lives next door. Gus always made a point of criticizing January's work in college, leading January to believe Gus was anti-happy endings. There was also one night when they danced intimately at a fraternity party.

Their writing styles are diametrically opposed: while January writes romance stories with happy endings, Gus writes cynical and dark fiction with few happy endings. Gus and January meet at a bookstore, where they are introduced by the store's owner, a woman named Pete. They joke around, but January is certain Gus doesn't remember her.

January goes to Pete's house for a book club meeting. Because Sonya is present, January hides in the bathroom and drinks wine. January eventually comes out of the bathroom, only to discover that Gus is also present.

Gus insists on driving January home when it's time to leave. They stop for donuts, and she and Gus talk about their writing and admit to having Googled each other. On the way home, Gus recalls January in college and mentions the night they went dancing. Gus and January both admit to having writer's block.

They strike a bargain: January will write bleak literary fiction, and Gus will write a romance novel. Gus will accompany January on research expeditions to help her tap into her inner darkness, and January will accompany Gus on dates to help him view the world more romantically as part of their agreement.

January and Gus are writing with renewed zeal. They also write notes that they send to one another through their windows. Gus interviews a woman whose sister was killed in a cult in town in the 1990s. Gus has been in town for the last few years researching the cult for his