Author Emily Henry Interview: Great Big Beautiful Life

Warning: Spoilers for the novel Nice Large Stunning Life forward.  

All alongside there have been some invisible strings tying Taylor Swift to Emily Henry’s newest novel.

And never simply because she’s an enormous Swiftie. Like its predecessors, Nice Large Stunning Life (out now) is a charming rom-com, following Alice Scott and Hayden Anderson as they compete to turn out to be the official biographer of now-reclusive media heiress Margaret Ives. However this time, Henry provides a 3rd central determine within the type of the beguiling twentieth century tabloid queen, who holds not solely the younger duo’s skilled fates but in addition their probability at a future collectively in her palms.

Crafting Margaret and greater than a century of her storied household’s historical past—relationship again to the Gilded Age—was no easy activity for Henry, who sought inspiration in a number of real-life figures. Amongst them, socialite Rebekah Harkness, whose life and controversies Swift particulars in “Final Nice American Dynasty.” 

“I like that tune, and love the story behind it,” Henry instructed E! Information in an unique interview. “Each from time to time I discover myself again on the Wikipedia web page, simply studying by means of. I simply discover these sorts of larger-than-life households actually, actually intriguing.”