"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 |
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. Her youngest daughter, Ruby, is a struggling comedienne 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: Nora is injured in an accident and a glossy magazine offers Ruby a fortune to write a tell-all about her mother. Under false pretenses, Ruby returns home to take care of the woman she hasn't spoken to for almost a decade. Nora insist they retreat to Summer Island in the San Juans, 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 had been broken... What began as an expos evolves, as Ruby writes, into an exploration of her family's past. Nora is not the woman Ruby has hated all these years. Witty, wise, and vulnerable, she is desperate to reconcile with her daughter. As the magazine deadline draws near and Ruby finishes what has begun to seem to her an act of brutal betrayal, she is forced to grow up and at last to look at her mother - and herself - through the eyes of a woman. And she must, finally allow herself to love.
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 Bantam Press an imprint of Transworld
Summer Island has 448 pages
