~ Trade Paperback
~ Winner of the She Reads Best of Award for Contemporary Fiction - 2025, and the British Book Award for Romance - 2026
~ New Release - 2025
Eternal optimist Alice Scott dreams of her big break. Hayden Anderson is a prize-winning author. The two find themselves on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: to compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of Margaret Ives, an enigmatic woman no one has seen in years. A tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and scandalous daughter of one of the most storied families of the twentieth-century, but Margaret has more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve . . .
Thoughtful, moving, and deliciously tender, Great Big Beautiful Life is a sweeping love story about the choices we make and the threads that knit us together.
"With a delicious slow-burn romance, a perfectly grumpy hero, and a setting that comes to life, Emily Henry spoils her readers with not one but two gorgeous stories." -- Laurie Gilmore, bestselling author of the 'Dream Harbor' series