Great Big Beautiful Life

Alice Scott is an eternal optimist. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-Prize-winning writer. They're both on a remote island to interview the reclusive Margaret Ives - and only one of them will get the book deal.

Publisher's blurb

Synopsis

Margaret Ives, heiress to one of the twentieth century's most scandal-drenched dynasties, has vanished from public life for decades. Now she is choosing a biographer, and she is auditioning two: sunny, dogged Alice and famously severe Hayden. Over a Georgia island summer they trade interview slots, family legends and increasingly inconvenient feelings, while Margaret's account of her own life keeps quietly refusing to line up with the tabloid version.

The editorial feature

Henry's most structurally ambitious book: a dual-timeline family saga wrapped inside a contemporary romance, with the older narrative carrying real weight rather than serving as decoration. The banter is as sharp as ever, but the novel's real subject is authorship - who owns a life once it has been printed. Funny, and then unexpectedly sad.

Book details

Genre

Romance

Released

22 April 2025

Publisher

Berkley

Featured on

22 April 2025

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