Emily Henry

You and Me on Vacation

From the#1New York Times bestselling author ofBook Lovers andBeach Read comesa sparkling novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations.

Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.

Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. 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.
 
Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven't spoken since.
 
Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees.
 
Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?

People We Meet On Vacation

Silke vandorpe

“I thought you didn't like holding hands," I say. 

“So, what? I just get whatever I want now?" I tease. 

His smile flickers back into place, calm and restrained. "Yes, Poppy" he says. “You get whatever you want now. Is that a problem?”

He arches an eyebrow. “Are you just saying that because you know what I'm going to say, and you want to make fun of me for it?" 

No?" I say. "Why? What are you going to say?" 

As long as i have him, I will never be alone again. 

Kiara

And that's how it is in real life too. You can love someone and still know the future you'd have with them wouldn't work for you, or for them, or maybe even for both of you.

Fiona

"Anyway" Rachel continues, “she told me that sometimes, when you lose your happiness, it's best to look for it the same way you'd look for anything else." […] "By retracing your steps," Rachel says. "So, Poppy, all you have to do is think back and ask yourself, when was the last time you were truly happy?" 

Stas

"My home," he says, and kisses me. We are, I think. We’re home.

“I still have a lot to figure out, but the one thing I know is, wherever you are, that's where I belong. I’ll never belong anywhere like I belong with you. No matter what I'm feeling, I want you next to me. You're home to me, Alex. And I think I'm that for you too." 

“I’ve always felt like once someone sees me deen down, that's it. There's something ugly in there, or unlovable, and you're the only person who's ever made me feel like I'm okay. 

There’s nothing scarier than the chance that, once you really have all of me, that changes. But I want all of you, so I’m trying to be brave.”

“I don't know how to love someone as much as I love you”

Alex bumps his leg into mine under the table, and when I glance at him, he's not even looking my way. He's just reminding me that he's here, that nothing can really hurt me.

“You won't lose me" he says, voice dimmed by the rain. “As long as you want me, I'm here."

I shake my head. “I don't want to lose you again"

“My point is, no one really knew me before you, Poppy. And even if... things change between us, you’ll never be alone, okay? I'll always love you." 

“You asked me who I was, and it was like the answer came out of nowhere. Sometimes it feels like I didn't even exist before that. Like you invented me." 

“I don't think I knew I was lonely until I met you." 

I'm crying because I'm relieved. Because I will never again feel as alone as I did during those long nights as a kid. As long as I have him, I will never be alone again.

I wish I could bottle this moment and wear it as a perfume

When I look back up at him, he's beaming at me, and I think “I love you more now than I ever have.” How is it possible that this keens happening with him?

Maybe that's why he can handle the public affection. Maybe, like me, when we're together he feels like no one else is there, like they're phantoms we dreamed up as set dressing.

"You are so sweet. I hope you don't let this place change you.”

And it's normal, so natural to push up on my tiptoes and wrap my arms around his waist, burrow my face into his chest, and breathe him in. Cedar, musk, lime. There is no greater creature of habit than Alex Nilsen.

Emily McMeans

“Isn't that ridiculous? I groan-laugh. "My life turned out how I hoped it would, and now I just miss wanting something"

Why do all guys want girls who look like they're carved out of Soap?» «What are you talking about?» Alex says. I mean, you had no interest in all those cool, sexy girls and then you see this wannabe kindergarten teacher and she's the first person you even consider. It's just... typical.» She's not a kindergarten teacher" he says. «What do you have against this girl?»

issa

sooo long. i loved it. poppy is so my girl, i love her so much and Alex, needless to say, has become my man goal. anyway, the story is great once you get into it. i had to get past 200 pages for that but you have to be patient in life.

siinsiiin

Bulan

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Newsweek ∙ Oprah Magazine ∙ Marie Claire ∙ Parade ∙ PopSugar ∙ BookPage ∙ BookBub ∙ Betches ∙ SheReads ∙ Good Housekeeping ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ and more! Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. From the bestselling author of Beach Read comes a sparkling new novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. 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. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven't spoken since. Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees. Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?

People We Meet on Vacation

This was really cute, but I didn’t love how the whole book seemed to center around a miscommunication. It was clear that the characters loved each other, so I don’t know why it took 12 years for them to figure it out. This was the last Em Hen book that I hadn’t read yet, so feeling good about that!

Keira

YOUCH! it is very hard to be nonchalant about this book because it touched a part of my soul that i didn't think could be seen by anyone else. emily henry gets it. she really does! i think i am always going to be forever changed knowing this book exists in this world, and i can pick it up anytime. the movie adaptation is really going to kill me i think.

shaye

Ella Williams

I preferred Beach Read, but this does some interesting things narrative-wise with its timeline and is funny and touching in places. The thing that I struggle with in this and other romance novels that aren’t historical or romantasy is that the tensions and obstacles that the characters face are generated by them being obtuse or childish, so they come across as caricatures and I don’t feel as invested in their story.

Laura Dobie

The flashbacks to vacations past (and their original meet at college) really helped build Poppy and Alex's friendship and make it feel real, and deep, for me, which I liked. I think that was really well done, and made me want to keep reading to keep finding out little tidbits about their friendship and why it fell by the wayside.

This one is definitely a slow burn, almost a little too much of a slow burn, which is the only reason it wasn't a 5 ⭐ read for me. 

Overall enjoyable, emotional, and wrapping up with a satisfying ending 🩷

Megan Murray 

The flashbacks to vacations past (and their original meet at college) really helped build Poppy and Alex's friendship and make it feel real, and deep, for me, which I liked. I think that was really well done, and made me want to keep reading to keep finding out little tidbits about their friendship and why it fell by the wayside.

This one is definitely a slow burn, almost a little too much of a slow burn, which is the only reason it wasn't a 5 ⭐ read for me. 

Overall enjoyable, emotional, and wrapping up with a satisfying ending 🩷

Carmen Malca

First Emily Henry book I've read!! I love how she writes and how witty and easy to understand the worrs are. I loveee Alex and poppy 

janna a

'A gorgeous romance' BETH O'LEARY, The Flatshare 'Our generation's answer to Nora Ephron' SOPHIE COUSENS, This Time Next Year 'So warm and funny' PAIGE TOON, The Minute I Saw You 'A pitch-perfect balance of loveable characters, hilarious wit and steamy sexual chemistry' LAURA JANE WILLIAMS, Our Stop From the bestselling author of Beach Read comes a steamy new novel that will have you laughing out loud and dreaming of your next holiday! *Also known as People We Meet On Vacation* TWO FRIENDS TEN TRIPS THEIR LAST CHANCE TO FALL IN LOVE 12 YEARS AGO: Poppy and Alex meet. They hate each other, and are pretty confident they'll never speak again. 11 YEARS AGO: They're forced to share a ride home from college and by the end of it a friendship is formed. And a pact: every year, one vacation together. 10 YEARS AGO: Alex discovers his fear of flying on the way to Vancouver. Poppy holds his hand the whole way. 7 YEARS AGO: They get far too drunk and narrowly avoid getting matching tattoos in New Orleans. 2 YEARS AGO: It all goes wrong. THIS YEAR: Poppy asks Alex to join her on one last trip. A trip that will determine the rest of their lives. You and Me on Vacation is a New York Times bestselling love story for fans of When Harry Met Sally, One Day and Casey McQuiston. Get ready to travel the world, snort with laughter and - most of all - lose your heart to Poppy and Alex. ------------------------------------------------------------ WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT EMILY HENRY 'The hottest book of the summer - the pages simply sizzle!' JOSIE SILVER 'Full of banter, heat, and sexual tension. A gorgeous page-turner of a novel' LAURA JANE WILLIAMS 'Full of sexual tension and tantalizing possibility. I fell head over heels for Alex and Poppy, and loved travelling all over the world with them both' BETH O'LEARY 'Emily Henry is my newest automatic-buy author . . . a heartfelt, funny, tender escape that you wish could last forever' JODI PICOULT 'A compulsively readable book full of sparkling wit, dazzling prose and a romance that grabbed me by the heart and wouldn't let me go. Absolutely my favourite read of the year, and probably one of my favourite books of all time' ABBY JIMENEZ 'Funny, and seriously sizzling' BEST 'Original, sparkling bright and layered with feeling. If whipcrack banter and foggy sexual tension is your catnip, you'll adore this book' SALLY THORNE 'What an absolute flipping triumph of a novel!!! I LOVED it ' EMMA COOPER

Tiktok made me buy it! Escape with 2021’s New York Times #1 bestselling laugh-out-loud love story

A thread of linked hands between Hallmark Romance and something recognised more as 'reality'. I suggest a read for anyone who feels unsettled or intimidated by the optimism of traditional romantic comedy. 

daphne

i feel pretty much the same about this as i did about funny story. i don’t really love poppy or alex much, but i like them together. still made me cry 

julia

Fatiema 

I feel like Sarah should be allowed to get away with murder

This is probably my favorite friends-to-lovers book ever. Emily Henry is amazing.

This was so fun, cute, colorful and all the good stuff and the repressed feelings between Poppy and Alex weren’t too face-palm-worthy.

Kyra

This is probably my favorite friends-to-lovers book ever. Emily Henry is amazing.

This was so fun, cute, colorful and all the good stuff and the repressed feelings between Poppy and Alex weren’t too face-palm-worthy.

Real good lighthearted read!

Lidia testa

Lenja

Sommarmöten

Väldigt långtråkig, händer inte jätte mycket. 

Lyckades inte ens läsa klart den, väldigt svårt att ja upp å börja läsa igen.

Nova sjödin

Väldigt långtråkig, händer inte jätte mycket. 

Lyckades inte ens läsa klart den, väldigt svårt att ja upp å börja läsa igen.

i honestly think frienda to lovers is evil bc the way i felt ill seeing the tension was insane, i rlly did love them though. I CANT WAIT TO SEE MOVIE ALEX OH MY GODDD!!! i did think the kiss in croatia was a bit underwhelming, like a big argument wouldve made this a 4.5 star read but other than that i rlly love this book

best friends to lovers excellence !!! poppyalex i love you !!!

tink 😵‍💫⭐

I was not expecting to love this book the way I did. I sat down to start it and finished it in one shot. 

Alissa 

Eva Ströberg

All the other reviews convinced me that this wasn’t some chick lit book, and that’s why I picked it up.

You know what? It is just some chick lit book and I spent half of the reading time wondering when the interesting story would pick up, and felt deflated because it didn’t for the next half of my reading time

Poppy and Alex, such difficult romance. Such complicated relationship, that was probably only valid if they were in highschool and fuelled by teen angst.

But no, Poppy and Alex are two grown ups who couldn’t admit to themselves what they wanted.

And I lost respect to Poppy and the author once she confused Austria with Australia. Say what?? Amateur. 

If only I could give zero star, I would

Jennifer Gosnell

Loveddd this book. Really cute. I love a travel romance! Definitely felt some frustration with the characters at points — but it was because I was invested! Love them both, really love all her books.

'A gorgeous romance' BETH O'LEARY 'The perfect getaway' JODI PICOULT TWO FRIENDS TEN SUMMER TRIPS THEIR LAST CHANCE TO FALL IN LOVE 12 SUMMERS AGO: Poppy and Alex meet. They hate each other, and are pretty confident they'll never speak again. 11 SUMMERS AGO: They're forced to share a ride home from college and by the end of it a friendship is formed. And a pact: every year, one vacation together. 10 SUMMERS AGO: Alex discovers his fear of flying on the way to Vancouver. Poppy holds his hand the whole way. 7 SUMMERS AGO: They get far too drunk and narrowly avoid getting matching tattoos in New Orleans. 2 SUMMERS AGO: It all goes wrong. THIS SUMMER: Poppy asks Alex to join her on one last trip. A trip that will determine the rest of their lives. You and Me on Vacation is a love story for fans of When Harry Met Sally and One Day. Get ready to travel the world, snort with laughter and - most of all - lose your heart to Poppy and Alex. **PREORDER NOW** ------------------------------------------------------------ WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT EMILY HENRY 'The hottest book of the summer - the pages simply sizzle!' JOSIE SILVER 'Full of banter, heat, and sexual tension. A gorgeous page-turner of a novel' LAURA JANE WILLIAMS 'Full of sexual tension and tantalizing possibility. I fell head over heels for Alex and Poppy, and loved travelling all over the world with them both' BETH O'LEARY 'Emily Henry is my newest automatic-buy author . . . a heartfelt, funny, tender escape that you wish could last forever' JODI PICOULT 'A compulsively readable book full of sparkling wit, dazzling prose and a romance that grabbed me by the heart and wouldn't let me go. Absolutely my favourite read of the year, and probably one of my favourite books of all time' ABBY JIMENEZ 'Funny, and seriously sizzling' BEST 'Original, sparkling bright and layered with feeling. If whipcrack banter and foggy sexual tension is your catnip, you'll adore this book' SALLY THORNE 'What an absolute flipping triumph of a novel!!! I LOVED it ' EMMA COOPER

Sajiya Chaudhary

Before buying it, I read a sample and the prologue was so good, I bought the book instantly and devoured it in a day. I mean i am going to go back to it again, definitely, but this first read was just too good! I laughed out loud so many times, i loved Poppy's character and related a lot to both Alex and Poppy, and the kind of dynamics they have! 
It's relatable and very very real, also the millenial problems they have. It is a very relevant book, especially now when people are analysing their life, work and assessing their choices, at least I am. It comes at a perfect time, and I am so glad I read it.

You and Me on Vacation

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