HAPPY PLACE BY EMILY HENRY

Harriet and Winn have been the perfect couple since they met in college, as compatible as salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. They broke up five months ago. I haven't even told my best friend yet. Thus, they shared a bedroom in a cottage in Maine that had been a friends' group retreat every year for the past decade. An annual respite from the world. There, for a week of vibrant bliss, they leave their daily lives behind, eat copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood, and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them best. Only this year, Harriet and Winn are lying through their teeth, trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week they can all be together at this place. They can't bear to break their friends' hearts, so they play their parts. Harriet becomes the resident of the surgery who never picks a fight, and Winn becomes the laid-back charmer who never shows a crack. It's a perfect plan (if seen from afar with sunscreen-stained sunglasses). We've loved each other for years, but only for a week... How difficult it is to fake it in front of the people who know you best.