Two fakers, and everyone is lying."
Get ready to have your hearts broken… but in a good way.
What could possibly go wrong?
Emily Henry’s' Happy Place'.Devyn Glista St. Blanc Studios
Henry goes on to explain she wanted to tell her own version of this story.
I think the second chance of it all is what really drew me into the story."
Henry tells EW that she’s constantly looking for something “that she hasn’t done before.”
Henry says thatHappy Placewas anything but easy to write once she got into it.
“I set out with this concept thinking: Oh this is gonna be really funny and screwball.
It’s such a ridiculous scenario.
It’s gonna be so much fun,” she says.
It was just not the funny, light book that I set out to write," says Henry.
A lot of it was just trying to get the right mood and tone."
“I wanted every relationship between Harriet and one of her friends to feel lived in and real.
A lot of it was trying to find that right balance.”
“I pulled a bunch of pieces from people and kind of melded them together.
There’s definitely pieces of every single character that I could map to my life,” says Henry.
“There’s a whole extended scene where Sabrina and Harriet visit Cleo’s parents in New Orleans.
In addition to the larger cast, there was one scene in particular that gave Henry some trouble.
“There were so many versions of that.
I’m writing fake-dating between exes so there has to be some fun there.
The bar scene took so much choreographing in my mind, emotionally,” explains Henry.
“Understanding the characters better really helped with that and understanding what the tension would be between.
That’s why we love enemies-to-lovers.
I want them to respect each other,'” Henry says.
It’s hard for me to then get on board with the romance.
I think every time I write enemies-to-lovers, it pretty quickly leaves the territory of enemies.”
At the end of the day,Happy Placeis about accepting happiness.
“I hope that [fans] really feel like they can take whatever path they actually want.
When I was writingHappy PlaceI was really trying to give my readers permission for happiness,” Henry says.
