People We Meet on Vacation
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.
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Poppy and Alex have taken a summer trip together every year since college, until two summers ago when something happened. Poppy convinces him to take one more trip, this time to a Palm Springs wedding.
People We Meet on Vacation contains some explicit on-page scenes but is restrained, around 3 out of 5 on the spice scale. The romance is built on slow-burn tension and friendship-to-lovers.
People We Meet on Vacation contains some explicit on-page scenes but is restrained, around 3 out of 5 on the spice scale. The romance is built on slow-burn tension and friendship-to-lovers.
No, but both share Emily Henry's voice and friendship-led romance approach. People We Meet on Vacation, Beach Read, Book Lovers, Happy Place, and Funny Story are independent standalones.
People We Meet on Vacation was written by Emily Henry, published in 2021 by Berkley.
People We Meet on Vacation is 480 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, People We Meet on Vacation takes most readers 7 to 10 hours to finish.
People We Meet on Vacation is a standalone novel by Emily Henry, not part of a series.
People We Meet on Vacation is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.