It Had To Be You

A witty and heartfelt romantic comedy featuring the linked love stories of a wedding planner, her unexpected business partner, and their quirky New York City coworkers.

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Five feel-good love stories. Two wildly different wedding planners. One fabulous city.

For the past twenty years, Liv and Eliot Goldenhorn have run In Love in New York, Brooklyn’s beloved wedding-planning business. When Eliot dies unexpectedly, he even more unexpectedly leaves half of the business to his younger, blonder girlfriend, Savannah. Liv and Savannah are not a match made in heaven, to say the least. But what starts as a personal and professional nightmare transforms into something even savvy, cynical Liv Goldenhorn couldn’t begin to imagine.

It Had to Be You unites Liv, Savannah, and couples as diverse and unique as NYC itself, in a joyous Love-Actually-style braided narrative. The result is a smart, modern, utterly charming love story that truly speaks to our times.

  • “This ensemble rom-com explores the messy entanglement of a wedding crew in the alternating-POV style of Love Actually. At its center is one of the most delightfully unlikely pairings I’ve read in a while: an exhausted wedding-planning widow and the chipper (and much younger) mistress of her deceased husband. So much fun.”

    Casey McQuiston, New York Times-bestselling author

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Love wins

It Had To Be You is set in the New York City wedding scene. Through a wonderful braided narrative, it explores all different types of love stories: first love, gay love, interracial love, love the second time around, secret love, and more. In this video, Georgia discusses why that was so important to her.

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  • "How many times have you watched Love Actually? If the answer is 'more than three,' (hello! me!) then you will devour Clark’s novel.”

    Elin Hilderbrand, Entertainment Weekly

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Thought-provoking questions to enhance your book club experience of It Had To Be You; author interview with Georgia Clark; hand-written author note; playlist of songs and artists mentioned in the book!

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