Summer Island

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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 pretences, Ruby returns home to take 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 had left and everyone's hearts had been broken . . . .

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Utterly absorbing. Kristin Hannah is singular in her ability to tell unforgettable stories about some of the women our world has forgotten. The Women is a triumph -- Taylor Jenkins Reid, bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six
Astonishing. Compelling. Powerful -- Delia Owens, bestselling author of Where the Crawdads Sing
Stuns with sacrifice. Uplifts with heroism -- Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry
A master storyteller -- Matt Haig, bestselling author of The Midnight Library

Author Bio

Kristin Hannah is an award-winning international number one bestselling author with over twenty-five million copies of her books sold worldwide. Her most recent titles The Four Winds, The Great Alone and The Nightingale won numerous best fiction awards and her earlier novel, Firefly Lane, is currently a blockbuster series on Netflix. The Nightingale is soon to be a major movie and is described by many as one of the most loved books of our generation. Kristin's writing has taken readers across multiple eras and to many places, but the thing that connects all of her work is the focus on what it's like being a woman in challenging times. Kristin is a lawyer-turned-writer and is the mother of one son. She and her husband live in the Pacific Northwest near Seattle.