Books like Happy Place

By Emily Henry

For revisiting a relationship after life has changed, these books offer summer memories, an old engagement and a difficult romantic choice.

For returning to a shared summer place

Carley Fortune

Both bring a separated pair back to a place associated with happier summers, making old memories and present choices difficult to separate.

The difference: Childhood lake summers and an adult reunion, rather than a group holiday.

Jane Austen

Both put former partners together again and ask whether the people they have become can reconsider an earlier decision to separate.

The difference: Regency manners and family pressure, without the pretend relationship.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Both ask whether a relationship still fits the life someone wants after separation and change, rather than treating the past as an answer.

The difference: A returned husband and a new fiancé create a love triangle.

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