Two people dumped by partners who fell for each other, thrown together as roommates — the #1 bestseller many call Emily Henry's best, narrated by Julia Whelan.
Daphne always loved the way her fiancé, Peter, told the story of how they fell in love — right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend, Petra. Suddenly Daphne is stranded in a small Michigan town with no friends, no family, and a barely-paying dream job as a children's librarian. Her unlikely lifeline: becoming roommates with the one other person who understands her exact humiliation — Miles, Petra's easygoing, chaotic ex. The two opposites mostly avoid each other, until a drunken night turns into a friendship and a plan: post misleading vacation photos to make their exes jealous. It's all for show, obviously. There's no way buttoned-up Daphne would actually fall for her ex-fiancée's new fiancée's ex… right? A warm, funny, surprisingly deep story about rebuilding a life after it falls apart.
By Funny Story, Julia Whelan and Emily Henry are a fully established audio dream team, and an Audible editor flatly called this one possibly Henry's best yet — crediting Whelan with "another flawless performance." She gives Daphne a careful, guarded warmth and Miles a scruffy, lovable charm, and her handling of the single-POV structure keeps you inside Daphne's head as she slowly comes back to life. The comedy lands, the banter sparks, and — crucially — she brings real weight to the heavier material about both characters' broken childhoods. It's an Audible Best of 2024 and a Goodreads Choice winner, and the narration is a big reason it became a phenomenon.
Emily Henry fans, lovers of the roommates and fake-dating tropes, and Julia Whelan devotees. It's warm, funny, and a touch steamier than her earlier books — a perfect weekend or vacation binge.
If drawn-out third-act misunderstandings frustrate you, the late-book conflict does run long. And if you want something purely light, there's real emotional weight — broken families, old wounds — under the rom-com surface.
Listen to it. A #1 bestseller that many fans and critics call Emily Henry's finest, with Julia Whelan at the top of her game. If you've done Beach Read and Book Lovers, this completes the essential trio.