The Summer Wives

Zusatztext “ The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams will give you the full order. It takes place on an exclusive island off Long Island Sound. Think: cocktails, sailing, croquet. A woman who visits as a teen falls in love with a local...who is later accused of murdering her stepfather. Intrigue, served.”   Informationen zum Autor Beatriz Williams is the bestselling author of over a dozen novels, including The Beach at Summerly, Our Woman in Moscow, and The Summer Wives, as well as four other novels cowritten with Lauren Willig and Karen White. A native of Seattle, she graduated from Stanford University and earned an MBA in finance from Columbia University. She lives with her husband and four children near the Connecticut shore, where she divides her time between writing and laundry. Klappentext New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams brings us the essential novel of the season—a ravishing postwar fable of love! class! power! and redemption set among the inhabitants of an exclusive island off the New England coast In the summer of 1951! Miranda Schuyler arrives on Winthrop Island! where she is catapulted into a heady new world of pedigrees and cocktails. But beneath the Island’s patrician facade! there are two castes: the summer families with their steadfast ways! and the working class of Portuguese fishermen and domestic laborers. Miranda finds herself drawn to Joseph Vargas! whose father keeps the lighthouse. As the summer winds to its end! Joseph and Miranda are caught in a catastrophe that will shatter Winthrop’s hard-won tranquility and banish Miranda from the Island for nearly two decades. Now! in the summer of 1969! Miranda returns at last. No longer a naive teenager! Miranda begins an impassioned quest for justice for the man she once loved. Zusammenfassung “ The Summer Wives is an exquisitely rendered novel that tackles two of my favorite topics: love and money. The glorious setting and drama are enriched by Williams’s signature vintage touch. It’s at the top of my picks for the beach this summer.” —Elin Hilderbrand, author of The Perfect Couple New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams brings us the blockbuster novel of the season—an electrifying postwar fable of love, class, power, and redemption set among the inhabitants of an island off the New England coast . . . In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society, still reeling from the loss of her father in the Second World War. When her beautiful mother marries Hugh Fisher, whose summer house on Winthrop overlooks the famous lighthouse, Miranda’s catapulted into a heady new world of pedigrees and cocktails, status and swimming pools. Isobel Fisher, Miranda’s new stepsister—all long legs and world-weary bravado, engaged to a wealthy Island scion—is eager to draw Miranda into the arcane customs of Winthrop society. But beneath the island’s patrician surface, there are really two clans: the summer families with their steadfast ways and quiet obsessions, and the working class of Portuguese fishermen and domestic workers who earn their living on the water and in the laundries of the summer houses. Uneasy among Isobel’s privileged friends, Miranda finds herself drawn to Joseph Vargas, whose father keeps the lighthouse with his mysterious wife. In summer, Joseph helps his father in the lobster boats, but in the autumn he returns to Brown University, where he’s determined to make something of himself. Since childhood, Joseph’s enjoyed an intense, complex friendship with Isobel Fisher, and as the summer winds to its end, Miranda’s caught in a catastrophe that will shatter Winthrop’s hard-won tranquility and banish Miranda from the i...

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"The Summer Wives is an exquisitely rendered novel that tackles two of my favorite topics: love and money. The glorious setting and drama are enriched by Williams's signature vintage touch. It's at the top of my picks for the beach this summer." - Elin Hilderbrand, author of The Perfect Couple
"Longtime Williams fans, readers of historical fiction and mysteries, and anyone seeking engaging plot twists will find satisfaction in these pages." - Booklist
"With just the right touch of bitters, Williams mixes a satisfyingly tempestuous-and eminently beachworthy-[follow-up] to her beloved Schuyler Sisters series." - Kirkus (starred review)
"[A] satisfying simmer of a read." - USA Today
"Another hot book for summer from the prolific Williams... A romantic, multilayered tale." - Philadelphia Inquirer
"Engrossing and gripping, you will finish this book in one sitting." - St. Louis Post Dispatch
"The Summer Wives is a compulsively readable story that will make you swear you can smell the salt air." - Popsugar
"This book is what the term "beach read" was made for." - Buzzfeed
"Romance, class issues, dark secrets, and murder-it's all here in this deliciously rich novel." - Bustle
"Williams has crafted a kaleidoscope of a novel - a mystery, a romance, and an utterly beguiling examination of the cost of secrets . . . The Summer Wives is a startling portrait of the courage it requires to make your own second chances." - Entertainment Weekly
"The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams will give you the full order. It takes place on an exclusive island off Long Island Sound. Think: cocktails, sailing, croquet. A woman who visits as a teen falls in love with a local...who is later accused of murdering her stepfather. Intrigue, served." - SKIMM Reads

Product details

• Authors: Beatriz Williams
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9780062860903
• ISBN: 978-0-06-286090-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 25 mm
• Series: HarperCollins Publishers
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION: Thrillers / Historical, FICTION: Family Life / General, FICTION: Historical / General, DRAMA: American / General, FICTION: Romance / Historical / American, FICTION: Romance / Historical / 20th Century, FICTION: Romance / Suspense, FICTION: Romance / Royalty, FICTION: Romance / New Adult, FICTION: Animals