Great Big Beautiful Life
Book of the Week: Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
Reviewed by our own birthday girl Franca (first time, but looks like not last time, Emily Henry reader 😉)
“Celebrity biographer Alice Scott has figured out the whereabouts of newspaper heiress and american sweetheart Margaret Ives, who has been gone from public eye for twenty years. margaret has now invited her to interview her for a potential tell all book about her family, her life, her loss, her secrets. the only catch? Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Hayden Anderson has been invited for exactly the same purpose. and he’s the most unapproachable and unlikable man Alice has ever met. Will the two find some common ground? Who will Margaret choose? And what secrets about the Ives family is Alice about to uncover?
I have to admit I was sceptical at first. I had never read an Emily Henry book before and this just sounded like the wish version of ‘The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo’ to me. In some ways it was very similar to Evelyn Hugo but in other ways it wasn’t at all.
While Margaret’s story plays a large part, it is not the centre of the novel. After a few chapters I was completely invested in Alice & Hayden’s love story, rooting for them, being upset with them, yelling at them when they just DIDN’T COMMUNICATE PROPERLY!! I was truly giggling and kicking my feet the whole time.
I would definitely recommend this if you liked Evelyn Hugo but also if you just love a good rivals to lovers and American dynasty story.”