Funny Story
Emily Henry
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· 627 ratings · 416 pages · Published: 23 Apr 2024

Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.
Which is how Daphne begins her new Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak.
Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads —Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?
But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex…right?
Tagged as:
- fake relationship 57
- contemporary 54
- m-f romance 49
- friends to lovers 48
- small town 47
- forced proximity 43
- funny 41
- sweet/gentle hero 39
- found family 36
- hurt/comfort 31
- competent heroine 31
- slow burn 28
- sweet/gentle heroine 25
- working class hero 24
- angst 22
- sunny/happy hero 22
- independent heroine 17
- tortured hero 11
- working class heroine 4
- other man/woman 4
- plain heroine 2
- shy heroine 2
- new adult 1
- older/mature 1
- tortured heroine 1
- childfree 1
- good grovel 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- past child abuse 23
- mental trauma 9
- past child neglect 2
- geography
- michigan 36
- usa 29
- north america 8
- Format
- Audiobook
- first person pov 41