Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbong. It occurred to me, listening to

today's interview, that in the English language, we have a word to describe the sweeping

beauty of love between a person and their partner. It's romance, of course. But where does that

leave descriptions of the love of a parents and child,

or between siblings or friends? Emily Hamney is the super popular romance novelist behind such

books as Beach Read and Funny Story. Her new book, Great Big Beautiful Life,

broadens out what she's trying to do when she's writing about love.

She speaks with NPR's and Miles Parks about why she wanted to challenge herself to expand her writing and how grief is an integral part of love.

That's coming up.

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If you were a fan of HBO's succession, you might be interested to learn about Margaret Ives.

She's the elusive, fictional media heiress at the center of Emily Henry's new novel, Great Big, Beautiful Life.

It's a story within a story about two journalists, Alice and Hayden, who are thrown together as they compete to write Margaret's memoir. But this is an Emily Henry book. She is the

patron saint of millennial romance so you know these journalists are not staying just friends.

Emily Henry, thank you so much for being here.

Thank you so much for having me.

So I want to start with a relationship between these two journalists. It's in some ways standard

romance fair. They meet. They misunderstand each other at first, but then gradually start to

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