And for Poppy, nothing makes sense any more. So long as they have each other, even if they only see each other during their annual summer trips, then their lives are good.īut something went wrong two summers ago, and they haven’t talked since. And yet, they bond so tightly that everyone and everything else in their lives are extraneous. Poppy dreams of travel and freedom Alex dreams of home and family and being settled. They’re diametrically opposed when it comes to lifestyle and goals. Poppy and Alex are a delightful pairing in all the right ways. What could possibly go wrong?įrom the New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read, a sparkling new novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together-lay everything on the table, make it all right. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut.

Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. For most of the year they live far apart-she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown-but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. She has insatiable wanderlust he prefers to stay home with a book.

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