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All the Summer Girls
By (Author) Meg Donohue
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
William Morrow Paperbacks
20th August 2020
United States
Paperback
368
Width 106mm, Height 168mm, Spine 22mm
181g
An intimate, heartfelt, beautiful exploration of friendship, family, and the ties that bind, and the secrets that destroy us.
Allison Winn Scotch, New York Times Bestselling Author
In Philadelphia, good girl Kate is dumped by her fianc the day she learns she is pregnant with his child. In New York City, beautiful stay-at-home mom Vanessa is obsessively searching the Internet for news of an old flame. And in San Francisco, Dani, the aspiring writer who cant seem to put down a bookor a cocktaillong enough to open her laptop, has just been fired...again.
In an effort to regroup, Kate, Vanessa, and Dani retreat to the New Jersey beach town where they once spent their summers. Emboldened by the seductive cadences of the shore, the women begin to realize how much their lives, and friendships, have been shaped by the choices they made one fateful night on the beach eight years earlierand the secrets that only now threaten to surface.
An honest and engaging look at the complicated and powerful bonds of female friendship.
Jennifer Close, New York Times Bestselling Author
All the Summer Girls is a beautifully wrought story about the tender yet resillient bonds of friendship and the damage of kept secrets. Meg Donohue writes with keen insight, prodding readers to re-examine their own past choices, while gracefully examining themes of family, friendship and forgiveness. Karen White, New York Times bestselling author Engaging. E! Online, The Best Summer Reads Meg Donohues All the Summer Girls is an intimate, heartfelt, beautiful exploration of friendship, family and the ties that bind and the secrets that destroy us. Read it first, pass it to your girlfriend later. Shell be grateful. Allison Winn Scotch, New York Times bestselling author All the Summer Girls is an honest and engaging look at the complicated and powerful bonds of female friendship. Donohue takes us on a weekend reunion full of secrets, resentment, and regret-in other words, once you start this book, you wont be able to put it down! Jennifer Close, bestselling author of Girls in White Dresses Beach Book Extraordinaire! Donohues three protagonists are irresistibly sympathetic as they try to unbury their true selves from the ruinous secrets of their shared past. Elin Hilderbrand A fast-paced novel about the enduring friendship of three young women who spent their summers in Avalon on the Jersey shore before dispersing across the country....A good beach read. Kirkus Reviews Donohue gives the chick-lit buddy trope an appealing twist and a lot of depth, turning a familiar yarn of regret, trust, and loyalty into an elegant ode to late bloomers. Publishers Weekly Donohue captures the beauty and frustration of reconnecting with old friendsthey know you so well, and they dont know you at all. Perfect for a staycation for readers who like the beachy drama of Elin Hilderbrand and Susan Wiggs. Booklist
Meg Donohue is the USA Today bestselling author of How to Eat a Cupcake and All the Summer Girls. She has an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University and a BA in comparative literature from Dartmouth College. Born and raised in Philadelphia, she now lives in San Francisco with her husband, three young daughters, and dog.