Heyward is best known for her work writing and producing HBO’s Emmy–winning Girls, for which she earned a WGA Award. Henry’s next title, Happy Place, is slated for release in April, also from Berkley. Henry earned the same accolade in 2021 with her New York Times and Indie Bestseller People We Meet on Vacation - which is currently being adapted into a feature film directed by Brett Haley - and came second on the list in 2020 with her New York Times Bestseller Beach Read, which PopSugar named the year’s Best Romance Book. In addition to being named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Oprah Daily, the novel earned the 2022 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance.

The novle was published in 2022 by Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House, and became an instant #1 New York Times and#1 USA Today bestseller, having already sold over one million copies in the US alone. If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again - in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow - what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.Ģ0th Century Adapting Emily Henry's 'Beach Read' With Yulin Kuang Set To Direct It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute. Sarah Heyward is attached to write the script, which will be produced by Tango.īook Lovers tells the story of Nora, a cutthroat literary agent who, convinced by her sister to spend one August holiday in Sunshine Falls, North Carolina, keeps running into Charlie, a bookish, brooding editor from back in the city.

Tango, the producer of the Sundance pic Shortcomings, is continuing to set up its future slate as it has come on to adapt the subversive rom com novel Book Lovers, into a feature film based on the #1 New York Times Bestseller from Emily Henry, the hit author behind three other New York Times Bestsellers over the last three years.

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