![]() ![]() Despite the better option right in front of her. When Atlas turns up in Boston, now a successful chef, he begs Lily to leave Ryle. It was the best of times it was the worst of times. Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in collegethey go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Diary entries fancifully addressed to TV host Ellen DeGeneres serve as flashbacks to Lily’s teenage years, when she met her first love, Atlas Corrigan, a homeless boy she found squatting in a neighbor’s house. There’s also the sudden death of a loved one in the book’s second act, complete with psychological fallout, as well as plenty of picturesque outdoor dining and leisure activities. Meanwhile, Sabrina and Cleo, in the book’s B-plot, suffer the pangs of estrangement - one hesitates to schedule a visit, the other feels stressed and isolated and less intimate than before. The protagonist, Harriet, is a burned-out medical professional considering a career change. ![]() ![]() What differentiates “Happy Place” from a standard love story is how much it’s a love-in-the-time-of-covid story, though inexplicably, neither covid nor the pandemic is referenced explicitly. All romances, be they comedies or dramas, demand that their leads get vulnerable and confess their feelings before is too late. ![]() “Happy Place” is funny at points, but it is also the closest that Henry has come to writing an old-school melodrama, a heart-rending plot that struggles to express the inexpressible. ![]()
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