Funny Story (Unabridged)
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4.1 • 37 Ratings
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- $21.99
Publisher Description
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
A New York Times Notable Book of 2024
Named a Must-Read Book of 2024 by TIME ∙ NPR ∙ ELLE ∙ Woman’s World and more!
A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.
Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.
Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak.
Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads—Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?
But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex…right?
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A rebound relationship has more long-term potential than you might guess in this tart and funny rom-com. Daphne and Peter are days away from their wedding when Peter calls it off, announcing he’s in love with his longtime friend Petra. Daphne needs a new place to live fast, so she moves in with Miles…the man Petra abandoned for Peter. It’s pure fun to watch Daphne and Miles commiserate over their mutual heartbreak, and we giggled as they began taunting their exes by pretending they’d entered into their own hot and heavy romance. But beneath the facade, could the feelings between them be real? Anyone who’s been dumped, mistreated, or unappreciated will get a kick out of Daphne and Miles’ antics. And narrator Julia Whelan brings out the story’s witty sense of humour with her wonderfully droll delivery. Cynics and romantics alike will find something to love with Funny Story.
