People We Meet on Vacation (NOW A NETFLIX FILM!) by Emily Henry

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Funny Story comes a 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?

Review

“Henry has become synonymous with modern and heartfelt takes on the romance genre.”—Rolling Stone

“What Henry is especially skilled at is writing dialogue. The banter between Poppy and Alex is so natural, quick and witty that it would make Shonda Rhimes do a slow clap.”—The Associated Press

Product details

US Paperback

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berkley

Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 11, 2021

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 400 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1984806750

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781984806758

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.48 x 0.98 x 8.26 inches

UK Paperback

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin

Publication date ‏ : ‎ 14 Aug. 2025

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 384 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1405986697

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781405986694

Item weight ‏ : ‎ 268 g

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.8 x 2.4 x 19.7 cm