As their chemistry starts to grow, Nora gets a taste of small town romance and begins to question various aspects of her life. There, she repeatedly has run-ins with Charlie Lastra, a book editor she knows from New York, who is also in town. Thanks to her younger sister Libby, she gets talked into taking a month-long trip to the small town of Sunshine Falls, North Carolina. Our protagonist, Nora, describes herself as the type of woman that decidedly does not get the guy in romantic comedies - a steely-eyed, bleached blonde, workaholic literary agent who’s referred to as a “Shark” by others in the industry. Summery, romantic, fun, and with endearingly bookish characters - there’s a lot to like about Henry’s latest release. If this summary was useful to you, please consider supporting this site by leaving a tip ( $2, $3, or $5) or joining the Patreon!īook Lovers is Emily Henry’s newest bookish summer beach read, and it delivers on everything it promises to be. He moves to New York and the book ends with him about to propose to Nora.įor more detail, see the full Section-by-Section Summary. However, a few months later Charlie reveals that Libby has offered to take over running the bookstore and his father is doing better. The trip ends and Nora returns to New York. However, Libby ends up encouraging Nora to pursue her dreams of being a book editor in New York instead, not wanting Nora to make any more sacrifices for her. Meanwhile, Libby reveals to Nora that she's actually planning on moving to Sunshine Falls, and the trip was initially meant to try to convince Nora to move there as well. Nora thinks a long-distance relationship would be too hard. Nora and Charlie fall for each other, but it turns out the Charlie is planning on staying in Sunshine Falls to help out with his family since his father is in poor health.

As they work together, Charlie helps Nora to be considered for an editor position, which is the job Nora originally wanted to pursue in publishing. Together, Nora and Charlie end up editing a book written by one of Nora's clients, Dusty Fielding, while they're there. He's also running the local bookstore, which his parents own, in order to help them out. Sunshine Falls turns out to be the hometown of Charlie Lastra, a handsome book editor that she knows, who happens to be in town. Nora has spent her whole adulthood making sacrifices for Libby's sake to help provide for Libby. Nora and Libby were raised by a single mother, who passed away when Libby was in high school.

Nora Stephens is a cutthroat literary agent in New York whose younger sister, Libby, convinces her to spend the entirety of August on a vacation to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina.

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