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Happy New Year to everyone, especially romance author Emily Henry, who has quite a lot going on for her in 2025 and beyond. A lot of people have been on the Emily Henry train for years, but I finally caught the Emily Henry bug with her 2024 release Funny Story. Now I, like the rest of the world, can’t wait to see what the author does next. Luckily for all of us, it looks like there’s a lot going on for Emily Henry. Let’s take a look at what we can expect to see from her this year (and potentially beyond).
Great Big Beautiful Life Publishes in April
Let’s start with the biggest 2024 news: Emily Henry’s new novel Great Big Beautiful Life comes out on April 22. The novel follows the story of two authors—Alice Scott, an optimistic young writer still looking for her big break, and Hayden Anderson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who always sees the glass as half empty. Both Alice and Hayden are competing for one major prize: the opportunity to write the biography of Margaret Ives, an heiress with a history of scandals, family drama, and tabloid-worthy escapades. No one has seen Margaret in years, and now the 80-something-year-old icon has invited both Alice and Hayden to Little Crescent Island for a month. At the end of the one-month trial period, Margaret will decide who gets to tell her story. But who will she end up choosing? That all depends on what kind of story Margaret wants to tell.
What can we expect from Henry’s latest? In an interview with Us Weekly, the author said that readers can expect “a spiritual heir to Beach Read, but it’s different…It feels like my first real departure, but it is still both a love story and a romance.” Henry has also said the story was inspired in part by Taylor Swift’s “The Last Great American Dynasty” from the Folklore album. For audiobook fans, you can expect the return of narrator Julia Whelan, who also narrated Henry’s novels A Million Junes, Book Lovers, Beach Read, Happy Place, People We Meet on Vacation, and Funny Story.
People We Meet on Vacation Film Adaptation Coming This Year
While we don’t have an official streaming date just yet, Netflix is releasing a film adaptation of Emily Henry’s 2021 novel People We Meet on Vacation this year! Directed by Brett Haley (Hearts Beat Loud, All the Bright Places), this film follows Poppy (Emily Bader) and Alex (Tom Blyth), two best friends who are polar opposites in every way. Still, every summer, they come together for a vacation…until one summer ruins everything, and they stop speaking for two years. Now they’re trying to rekindle their friendship—but is there a chance they could be more than friends?
People We Meet on Vacation was filmed in New Orleans in 2024 and also stars Sarah Catherine Hook, Jameela Jamil, Lucien Laviscount, Lukas Gage, Miles Heizer, Alice Lee, Tommy Do, Alan Ruck, and Molly Shannon. Hopefully we’ll hear more news about a specific release date soon!
More Emily Henry Film Adaptations to Come!
While we have no word on when these will be released, Emily Henry has a lot more book adaptations in the works. Henry herself is working on a script for a film adaptation of Funny Story. Meanwhile, Yulin Kuang (author of How to End a Love Story) is penning a script for the film adaptation of Henry’s 2020 novel Beach Read. Tango is working on an adaptation of Book Lovers (2022). And Happy Place is set to be a Netflix series from Jennifer Lopez’s production company Nuyorican.
Stay tuned! We’ll report back as more information as it becomes available. What Emily Henry project are you the most excited about?