FICTION
Released: June 26, 2012
"Despite some well-worn plot expedients and an unduly preachy denouement, a sensitive glimpse into the lives of damaged people groping their way toward healing."
Hilderbrand's latest Nantucket-based tale details the impact of a tragic accident on three families.
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FICTION
Released: July 2, 2008
"A perfect summer cocktail of sex, sun and scandal."
FICTION
Released: July 2, 2007
"Nothing original, but in Hilderbrand's hands it's easy to get lost in the story."
FICTION
Released: June 1, 2001
"One hates to see Kayla, a good Nantucketer, take it on the chin like this. But, well, for a good story? Hey."
Follow-up to Hilderbrand's debut,
The Beach Club (2000), that summons up stronger plotting but is still sheer as a see-through bikini.
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FICTION
Released: June 21, 2011
"Beach-ready reading."
The wife of a notorious Ponzi schemer (think Ruth Madoff, but 20 years younger) hides out from aggrieved investors on Hilderbrand's home turf, Nantucket.
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FICTION
Released: June 1, 2000
"A feisty, evanescent first novel, lively enough to keep a sunbather awake."
FICTION
Released: June 1, 2005
"Uneasy mix of escapism and medical soap opera."
Another Nantucket beach read from Hildebrand (
Nantucket Nights, 2001), this one set in a fabulous ocean-side restaurant where the heroine's frothy romance competes with the specter of cystic fibrosis.
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FICTION
Released: July 7, 2009
"Great fun, and with a few poignant moments too. "
Nantucket in summer, four chummy couples, romantic intrigue and a possible murder, in the latest from Hilderbrand (
A Summer Affair, 2008, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: July 6, 2010
"Hilderbrand's portrait of the upper-crust Tate clan through the years is so deliciously addictive that it will be the "It" beach book of the summer."
Queen of the summer novel--how could she not be, with all her stories set on an island--Hilderbrand delivers a beguiling ninth (
The Castaways, 2009, etc.), featuring romance and mystery on isolated Tuckernuck Island.
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FICTION
Released: June 30, 2006
"Less chick-lit beach read than old-fashioned Joan Crawford tearjerker."
In Hilderbrand's fifth Nantucket novel (
The Blue Bistro, 2005, etc.), a vacationing college student arranges to meet with her mysterious godmother, a former restaurateur of renown, to learn more about her dead mother.
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