Secrets and lies hold the island together. But this summer, everything will fall apart…Secrets and lies hold the island together. But this summer, everything will fall apart…A tight communityA forbidden loveA summer to change everything…It's 1951 and Miranda's mother has just married in to one of the wealthiest families on Winthrop Island, a glamorous haven set off the New England coast.But beneath the surface, the island is a delicate balance of tension between the wealthy summer families who holiday there and the Portuguese fishermen and domestic workers who keep the island going.As Miranda begins to fall for Joseph, the lighthouse keeper's handsome son, the tension rises inexorably to the surface and an explosive end to the summer will change everyone, forever…Praise for Beatriz Williams:‘A world filled with elegance, charm, and bygone manners … No-one does it better than Beatriz' Jane Green‘Full of wit, romance, and surprising twists’ Popsugar‘Definitely worth squeezing into your hand luggage’ RED‘Summer of 1938: A scandalous love triangle and a famous hurricane converge… a perfect storm.’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING‘A fantastic summer read’ HELLO‘Delightful and rewarding from an author to watch’ WE LOVE THIS BOOK‘Williams' historical masterpiece is an all-encompassing, period-perfect read.’ RT Book Reviews (Top Pick!)‘[A] fast-paced love story…the scorching sun illuminates a friend’s betrayal and reignites a romance’ O, The Oprah Magazine‘A candidate for this year's best beach read – the period story of a derailed love affair seen through a sequence of summers’ Kirkus Book ReviewsEpic page-turning romance perfect for the beachA graduate of Stanford University with an MBA from Columbia, Beatriz Williams spent several years in New York and London hiding her early attempts at fiction, first on company laptops as a communications strategy consultant, and then as an at-home producer of small persons, before her career as a writer took off. She lives with her husband and four children near the Connecticut shore.Epic page-turning romance perfect for the beach• New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams brings us the blockbuster novel of the summer – a spellbinding story 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…• Beatriz is a New York Times bestselling author: a quality writer who writes in the commercial-literary sweet spot• Beatriz is very PR-savvy and keen to break into the UK marketCompetition: Liza Klaussman, E Lockhart, Maggie Shipstead, Emma Straub, Vanessa Lafaye
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