A great story, very hard to put down but just a bit too long for a one-sitting read which it deserves. It concerns a rich American family with parental and financial secrets. Our narrator, Mabel, is not of their world. She comes from a poor background and is a college chum of the daughter. She is invited to spend the summer with the extended family on their luxurious estate. It is the patriarch’s sister who approaches Mabel to expose her monstrous brother for she believes the Van Gogh in the main house to be hers. She gives Mabel an old diary where, she says, the truth lies. The diary goes back to the 1920s and there are a lot of ‘truths’ to expose! Great stuff. ~ Sarah Broadhurst
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One perfect family. Too many perfect lies. In every glossy picture of the American society pages, there's an Ev Winslow. Disarmingly beautiful, and - naturally - tall, athletic, with a smile that's perfect. Small-town Mabel Dagmar has never known anyone like Ev, and now she's sharing her college dorm - even if she is completely ignored. But suddenly they're friends and Mabel can hardly believe her luck when she finds herself summering at the Winslow family's luxurious estate, Winloch, in Vermont. Winloch is like a small village, with each of the perfect Winslow children inhabiting a pretty white cottage. Days spent swimming in watery coves evaporate into nights at glamorous cocktail parties where Mabel sits alongside the scions and the fountainhead of this prestigious family. And as the formality melts away with one particular Winslow brother, Mabel is left to think that her summer has all but become a golden dream. But when Mabel meets a disgruntled member of the family, she can't help looking a little closer at the Winslows, probing beneath their glossy exterior. And what she uncovers in their past is almost as shocking as what she finds out about their present. Beneath the beauty is a rotten core. And not everyone is quite as they seem.
Bittersweet features in the following genres: Thriller and Suspense, Family Drama, eBooks of the Month, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations, General Fiction
Bittersweet is available in Paperback, Hardback, Ebook
Bittersweet was written by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore and published by The Borough Press an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Bittersweet has 439 pages
