"Amazing – you’ll want to put anchor down here until the very last page."
So, we all know Kristin Hannah is an incredible writer – if you’ve read The Four Winds, you’ll know she has the ability to take you apart and put you back together several times over the course of a few hundred pages. Her books are incomparable and they are only getting more amazing as she goes. Her latest offering, The Women is a compelling read. However, I’m not sure they are what you’d call a beach read, these are books which will submerge you, keeping the tissues handy at all times is advisable.
Summer Island, on the other hand, an earlier book is a perfect beach read. (And, handily enough, it’s set on an island too!) It’s the story of a mother-daughter relationship, pulled asunder years earlier and how, against all the odds, that relationship might be mended and with it, the characters and their lives also. This is a great big HEA from Hannah, the writing is terrific, the setting, Summer Island, is amazing – you’ll want to put anchor down here until the very last page.
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
'One of the greatest storytellers of our time' - Delia Owens, bestselling author of Where the Crawdads Sing
From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Women and The Nightingale, Summer Island is a poignant, warm and tender novel about a mother and daughter: the complex ties that bind them, the past that separates them, and the healing that comes with forgiveness.
Years ago, Nora Bridge walked out on her marriage and left her daughters behind. She has since become a famous radio talk-show host and newspaper columnist beloved for her moral advice, while her youngest daughter, Ruby, is a struggling comedian who uses her famous mother as fuel for her bitter, cynical humour.
When the tabloids unearth a scandalous secret from Nora's past, their estrangement suddenly becomes dramatic. After Nora is injured in an accident, a glossy magazine offers Ruby a fortune to write a tell-all about her mother and Ruby returns home under the pretext of taking care of the woman she hasn't spoken to for almost a decade.
Nora insists they retreat to Summer Island, to the lovely old house on the water where Ruby grew up; a place filled with childhood memories of love and joy and belonging. There, Ruby is also reunited with her first love and his brother. Once, the three of them had been best friends; inseparable. Until the summer that Nora left, and everyone's hearts were broken . . .
Praise for Kristin Hannah:
'Utterly absorbing . . . A triumph' - Taylor Jenkins Reid, bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six
'Stuns with sacrifice. Uplifts with heroism' - Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry
'Moving and unforgettable' - Christy Lefteri, bestselling author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo
'A classic storyteller' - Matt Haig, bestselling author of The Midnight Library
Summer Island features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction
Summer Island is available in Paperback, Ebook, Book
Summer Island was written by Kristin Hannah and published by Pan Books an imprint of Pan Macmillan
Summer Island has 410 pages
£8.99
