The Summer Wives
New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams brings us the blockbuster novel of the season—a spellbinding novel of romance, murder, class, power, and dark secrets set in the 1950s and ’60s among the rarified world of a resort island in the Long Island Sound . . .In the summer of 1951,...
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New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams brings us the blockbuster novel of the season—a spellbinding novel of romance, murder, class, power, and dark secrets set in the 1950s and ’60s among the rarified world of a resort island in the Long Island Sound . . .In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island in Long Island Sound a
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ISBN:
9780062660367
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
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 ...
Miranda Schuyler is eighteen years old when she arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island in Long Island Sound. Her beautiful mother is about to marry Hugh Fisher whose summer house on the Island overlooks the famous lighthouse. Miranda's new stepsister, Isobel, is eager to draw her into the custo...
Williams' books veer a little more toward the "chick lit" genre than I normally read, but I enjoy them. The Summer Wives is no exception. I think she did a beautiful job of depicting Winthrop Island, a believable location to anyuone who has ever lived in a small, inward-turned place (like my valley)...
A special thank you to Edelweiss and William Morrow for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.Beatriz Williams' latest novel is mesmerizing. Set in the 1950s and '60s, it is a tempestuous story of romance, class, power, secrets, and murder set on picturesque Winthrop Island.It is the the summer o...
The Summer Wives, Beatriz Williams, author; Kristin Kalbli, narrator In 1930, on Winthrop Island, off the coast of CT, Bianco Madeiro and Hugh Fisher fall in love and have a secret affair. Both are in their teens. Both swear their eternal love for each other, but there is a catch, Hugh is from the u...