![]() ![]() So they’ll have to fake-date (fake-engage?) for a week with no one the wiser… what one might consider the lockdown nightmare. ![]() ![]() And with their beloved cottage getting sold off, making this the final summer, they don’t want to burden the others with their breakup. But the requisite twist is that one of the couples, surgical resident Harriet Kilpatrick and carpenter Wyn Connor, have secretly broken off their engagement months ago without clueing in the most important people in their lives. One that stands out this year is group getaways in contemporary romances: Laura Kay’s Wild Things sees a group of friends buying a house in the English countryside-the lockdown dream-while Emily Henry’s latest reunites college buddies at the eponymous Happy Place in coastal Maine. We’re far enough into this ongoing pandemic that it’s fascinating to see potential micro-trends popping up in fiction (aside from the clear delineation between those authors that did and did not set their novels in our covid timeline). ![]()
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