It isn’t truly summer vacation without a bittersweet beach read from Elin Hilderbrand. After suffering a sudden and devastating loss, fiftysomething food blogger Hollis Shaw invites four very different women—her best friends from her teens, twenties, thirties, and now—to her gorgeous Nantucket beach home for an all-girls weekend. With her grieving film-student daughter back home to document, Hollis and her support circle bond, process their emotions, and open up old wounds. Each of Hilderbrand’s well-rounded characters carries her own emotional baggage, not to mention a closely guarded secret or two. We devoured this tragicomic story of forgiveness, love, and second chances amidst the sea glass and Lilly Pulitzer skirts.
