Emily Henry Great Big Beautiful Life

两位作家争夺为传奇女性奥莉维亚（Olivia）立传的机会，却在挖掘她的人生时发现：这位看似“大女主”的人物，藏着比小说更戏剧化的秘密——从平凡小镇女孩到跨国企业创始人，她的每一次转折都挑战着“成功叙事”的既定模板。Emily Henry以双线叙事揭开谜团：‌传记作家的竞争‌与‌奥莉维亚的回忆‌交织，探讨“谁有权定义他人生命”的伦理困境。

作品延续Emily Henry一贯的细腻笔触，书中既有“阳光穿透咖啡馆玻璃像液态琥珀”的诗意描写，也不乏“创业会议桌上摔碎的不仅是咖啡杯，还有性别偏见”的犀利洞察；突破传统爱情小说框架，将浪漫元素融入女性自我觉醒的主线——奥莉维亚与初恋、商业对手、女儿的三段关系，分别对应“激情”“权力”“救赎”三重命题。

《纽约时报》称其“重新定义了女性成长小说”，《滚石》杂志盛赞“堪比《美食、祈祷与恋爱》的精神深度与《早间新闻》的叙事野心”；英文原版在Target独家精装版上市首周即登小说类销量榜首；

《Great Big Beautiful Life》像多棱镜般折射出生命的复杂光谱：它既可以是奥莉维亚办公桌上未寄出的道歉信，也可以是传记作家键盘下被删除的残酷段落。Emily Henry用这部作品证明：‌真正的壮丽人生，不在于规避错误，而在于诚实地将伤痕编织进自己的史诗。

书名：Great Big Beautiful Life

作者：Emily Henry

简介：Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry.

Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they’re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years--or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the 20th Century.

When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she’ll choose the person who’ll tell her story, there are three things keeping Alice’s head in the game.

One: Alice genuinely likes people, which means people usually like Alice—and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over.

Two: She’s ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication

Three: Hayden Anderson, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition.

But the problem is, Margaret is only giving each of them pieces of her story. Pieces they can’t swap to put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they’re in the same room.

And it’s becoming abundantly clear that their story—just like the tale Margaret’s spinning—could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad…depending on who’s telling it.