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"Great Big Beautiful Life" by Emily Henry.
\n"Two writers com pete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with mor e than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry. Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still drea ming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they're both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen in year s--or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress\, former tabloid princess\, and daughter of one of t he most storied (and scandalous) families of the 20th Century. When Margar et invites them both for a one-month trial period\, after which she'll cho ose the person who'll tell her story\, there are three things keeping Alic e's head in the game. One: Alice genuinely likes people\, which means peop le usually like Alice--and she has a whole month to win the legendary woma n over. Two: She's ready for this job and the chance to impress her perenn ially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication. Three: Hayden Anderso n\, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book\, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition. But the problem is\, Margaret is only giving each of them pie ces of her story. Pieces they can't swap to put together because of an iro nclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time the y're in the same room. And it's becoming abundantly clear that their story --just like the tale Margaret's spinning-could be a mystery\, tragedy\, or love ballad . . . depending on who's telling it"-- Provided by publisher.
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