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Happiness for Beginners

By: Katherine Center
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
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Summary

AS SEEN ON NETFLIX - AN UPLIFTING ROMANTIC COMEDY FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BODYGUARD

Sometimes to find your way, you have to get really, really lost...
Helen Carpenter has always lived her life as far from the edge as possible. Finding herself newly divorced and a little lost, Helen decides she needs a reset. So when her annoying younger brother convinces her to sign up for a hardcore wilderness survival course, she hopes the adventure will be exactly what she needs.

Instead, it's a disaster. It's nothing like she expected. She doesn't expect the surprise summer blizzard, for example-or the blisters, or the mean pack of sorority girls. And she especially doesn't expect that her annoying brother's even-more-annoying best friend, Jake, would show up for the exact same course-and distract her, derail her, and... kiss her.

But it turns out sometimes disaster can teach you exactly the things you need to learn. Like how to keep going, even when you think you can't. How being scared can make you brave. And how sometimes getting really, really lost is your only hope of getting found.

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"The things we remember are what we hold on to, and what we hold on to becomes the story of our lives. We only get one story. And I am determined to make mine a good one."
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"Wise, delicious, page-turning... Katherine Center writes about falling down, growing up, and finding love like nobody else." BRENÉ BROWN, #1 New York Times bestseller

"If you're anything like us, you'll read this book in one sitting." INSTYLE

"A fast-paced read with sharp, perfectly written dialogue." BOOKLIST

©2023 Katherine Center (P)2023 Orion Publishing Group Limited
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Watched the film before the book. Loved it but the book is way better. Loved how the story flowed and the characters were more real. Great!

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Lovely story, easy listen. Better than the film with really realistic characters. Bought another one from the same author after.

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Likeable main characters. I listened to this over a couple of days and note Netflix are showing the film so will watch it over the weekend.

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