Summer People

Author: Elin Hilderbrand

Every summer the Newton family retreats to their beloved home on Nantucket for three months of sunshine, cookouts, and bonfires on the beach. But this summer will not be like any other. When Arch Newton, a prominent New York attorney, dies in a plane crash on his way home from a business trip, his beautiful widow Beth can barely keep things together. Above all, though, she….Read More

10 Books Similar to Summer People

The Blue Bistro

Elin Hilderbrand, author of the enchanting Summer People and The Beach Club, invites you to experience the perfect getaway with her sparkling new novel.Adrienne Dealey has spent the past six… Continue Reading Posted in: American Literature (Books), Contemporary Women Fiction

The Beach Club

In The Beach Club, the juicy first novel by Elin Hilderbrand, a series of personal dramas are played out during one summer at a Nantucket Beach Club. It's about the… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary American Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction

The Love Season

It's a hot August Saturday on Nantucket Island. Over the course of the next 24 hours, two lives will be transformed forever.Marguerite Beale, former chef of culinary hot spot Les… Continue Reading Posted in: Family Secrets, Massachusetts Nantucket Island

A Summer Affair

She's the perfect wife and mother--and he's the perfect temptation in this "perfect summer cocktail of sex, sun, and scandal" (Kirkus Reviews).Claire has a problem with setting limits. All her… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Love Stories, Manners And Customs

The Island

A summertime story only Elin Hilderbrand can tell: a family in upheaval after a cancelled wedding fill an island summer with heartache, laughter, and surprises. Birdie Cousins has thrown herself… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Intergenerational Relations, Vacations

Summer house

After years of wandering from whim to whim, thirty-year-old Charlotte Wheelwright seems to have at last found her niche. The free spirit enjoys running an organic gardening business on the… Continue Reading Posted in: Literary Sagas, Women's Literary Fiction

The Castaways

Greg and Tess MacAvoy are one of four prominent Nantucket couples who count each other as best friends. As pillars of their close-knit community, the MacAvoys, Kapenashes, Drakes, and Wheelers… Continue Reading Posted in: Boating Accidents, Fiction, Friendship

Barefoot

Visiting Nantucket for the summer, three women seek peace and comfort as they cope with the challenges in their lives--from marriage, infidelity, and the mayhem of motherhood to scandal, tragedy,… Continue Reading Posted in: Female Friendship, Fiction, Mothers

Silver Girl

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… Continue Reading Posted in: Female Friendship, Fiction, Secrecy

Leave a Reply