Meredith Martin Delinn just lost everything: her friends, her homes, her social standing – because her husband Freddy cheated rich investors out of billions of dollars.
Desperate and facing homelessness, Meredith receives a call from her old best friend, Constance Flute. Connie’s had recent worries of her own, and the two depart for a summer on Nantucket in an attempt to heal. But the island … island can’t offer complete escape, and they’re plagued by new and old troubles alike. When Connie’s brother Toby – Meredith’s high school boyfriend – arrives, Meredith must reconcile the differences between the life she is leading and the life she could have had.
Set against the backdrop of a Nantucket summer, Elin Hilderbrand delivers a suspenseful story of the power of friendship, the pull of love, and the beauty of forgiveness.
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This is basically…imagine what Bernie Madoff’s wife went through. Imagine if she didn’t know what he was doing, and went from being a woman in love with a billionaire guy, to a woman reviled, on the run, without a friend to her name, loathed and suspected of deep greed.
Now imagine she has an old friend, a woman with a house in …
The novel is based on Bernie Madoff and his wife Ruth, but how much Hilderbrand got from research and how much she made up, I don’t know. But the Ruth figure, Meredith, age 49, goes to the Nantucket summer house of her estranged once best friend Connie and they make up and spend the summer together. Connie cooks all kinds of wonderful food…the …
Great book. Love all of Elin’s books.
I love Elin Hildebrand books ,but this is my favorite.
I live everything Elin Hilderbrand writes
This is an easy chick lit read! I like these as my go-to when I do not want to think about what I am ready, and just enjoy the story being told.
Two women who have been friends since school have fallen out over the adult years and one now desperately needs the other. Can the two reconcile their differences from years ago and both understand why …
Awesome book
Anything written by Elin Hilderbrand is at the top of my reading list. She’s simply the best!
Easy summer reading. If you like to read fiction with some description of yummy things the characters are eating, you will enjoy this.
I have never read one of her books that didn’t make me feel like I was in Nantucket area. I love all her books especially when one takes place not in her usual area.
Love Elin Hildebrand’s books. This is one if my favorites.
This author creates some great characters.