A lot of it was just trying to get the right mood and tone.' 'A lot of the revision was me trying to find the sense of the humor in the book and those screwballer, slapstick moments in this scenario that is kinda ridiculous. It was just not the funny, light book that I set out to write,' says Henry. 'There are these two characters and they love each other so we have to give them a really good reason to have broken up. But then Henry 'got to know the characters better' and quickly realized it was more complex than she initially thought. 'I set out with this concept thinking: Oh this is gonna be really funny and screwball. 'It was kind of down to the wire - to where I was getting multiple existences for every revision.' 'I wrote a first draft fairly quickly, but it was one of the worst drafts I have ever written in my life and so it was very much a book that took every single draft to whip into shape,' Henry explains. Henry says that Happy Place was anything but easy to write once she got into it. I think the second chance of it all is what really drew me into the story.' Henry tells EW that she's constantly looking for something 'that she hasn't done before.' 'Getting you to root for a relationship that has already ended is a huge challenge, and that's how I choose my next book. 'I loved that the basic premise was that these couples have already fallen in love once and you may or may not get to see that on screen,' says Henry.

When asked where the idea for this story came from, Henry explained that 'the idea of exes having to date more had to do with the fact that I was watching a lot of comedies of remarriages from the '40s.' Henry goes on to explain she wanted to tell her own version of this story. Blanc Studios Emily Henry's' Happy Place'

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