Elin Hilderbrand. Little, Brown, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-0-316-26117-3
The complicated web of familial turmoil created by Hilderbrand in this concluding chapter of her Winter Street trilogy is almost too much to bear as the Quinn family prepares for one last holiday season on Nantucket Island. This fictional depiction...
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Elin Hilderbrand, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (324p) ISBN 978-0-312-31953-3
The pricey, popular bistro of the title is the real star of Hilderbrand's fourth novel set on Nantucket. After years of hotel employ, peripatetic Adrienne Dealey, 28, lands her first restaurant job within hours of disembarking on the bucolic...
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Elin Hilderbrand. Little, Brown, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-0-316-09975-2
Hilderbrand's (Barefoot) charming, poignant 13th novel chronicles what happens after a woman's true love returns to her 27 years after they've agreed to no longer be in touch. Born with the ability to discern whether a couple is a perfect match or...
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Elin Hilderbrand. Little, Brown, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-316-43545-1
Hilderbrand’s engaging 20th novel follows the Quinn family and their loved ones as patriarch Kelley Quinn succumbs to cancer. After he and his first wife, Margaret, divorced, Kelley quit his high-paying trader job and moved their three children from
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Elin Hilderbrand. Little, Brown, $28 (464p) ISBN 978-0-316-37526-9
The summer wedding of the year on Nantucket Island is shattered when the maid of honor’s body washes up on the beach right before the ceremony in Hilderbrand’s deliciously captivating drama. It’s July 4th weekend, and Bronx Zoo assistant director...
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Elin Hilderbrand. Little, Brown, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-43551-2
Hilderbrand’s breezy family drama, the first of a series, plays out against the pristine beaches and sparkling waters of St. John in the Caribbean. Pragmatic Iowa City magazine editor Irene Steele has finished restoring her beloved Queen Anne home,...
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Elin Hilderbrand, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-26125-2
Inspired by her home island, Nantucket resident and first-time novelist Hilderbrand maps out a sprightly summer saga at the exclusive Nantucket Beach Club and Hotel, from the season's May opening through the October finale. Transplanted Iowa farmboy
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Elin Hilderbrand, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (294p) ISBN 978-0-312-32230-4
Hilderbrand's fifth book is a fulfilling tale of familial self-exploration. Marguerite is a chef on Nantucket, Mass., who hasn't cooked for anyone since she sold her restaurant 14 years ago, following the death of her best friend, Candace,...
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Elin Hilderbrand, Author . Little, Brown $24.99 (403p) ISBN 978-0-316-01858-6
Hilderbrand's sixth novel heaps on the trauma as a substitute for realistic connection in this heady mix of beach house, cancer, affair and mom lit. Connecticut housewife Vicki, diagnosed with lung cancer, has packed up her two kids for a chemo-c
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Elin Hilderbrand, Author . Little, Brown $24.99 (408p) ISBN 978-0-316-01860-9
You know summer's on the way when the beachy jacket art starts showing up. Here are two by Nantucket writers set on the island, where you can't throw a lobster roll without hitting a Claire or a Clare.
A Summer Affair
Elin Hilderbrand
. Little,...
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Elin Hilderbrand, Author . Little, Brown $24.99 (359p) ISBN 978-0-316-04389-2
In the close-knit group of four successful Nantucket couples who call themselves the Castaways, Greg and Tess MacAvoy “had what everybody wanted.” Or so it seems to Delilah Drake, the voluptuous bon vivant Castaway married to staid...
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Elin Hilderbrand, Little, Brown/Reagan Arthur, $25.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-316-04387-8
At the start of this steamy woman's novel from Hilderbrand (The Castaways), recently divorced Birdie Cousins is busy planning the September wedding of her older daughter, Chess, at the family house on Tuckernuck, a privately owned island near...
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Elin Hilderbrand, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-28335-3
Elin Hilderbrand's Nantucket Nights (after The Beach Club) digs into the private lives of three middle-aged women Kayla, Val and Antoinette. For 20 years, they have made annual midnight excursions to the beach to drink champagne, skinny-dip and...
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Elin Hilderbrand. Little, Brown, $27.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-316-09978-3
Hilderbrand's latest (after Summerland) is the perfect beach read—down to its Nantucket setting. The Carmichaels and Grahams arrive on the island for the wedding of golden girl Jenna Carmichael to eth-ical banker Stuart Graham. Jenna's mother Beth,...
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Elin Hilderbrand. Little, Brown/Reagan Arthur, $26.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-316-09966-0
Meredith and Connie's lifelong friendship broke apart three years ago, but their grief brings them back together in Hilderbrand's absorbing latest (after The Island). Connie is profoundly lonely following her husband's death and the estrangement...
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Elin Hilderbrand. Little Brown/Reagan Arthur, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-09983-7
Nantucket Island’s year-round residents are shaken when a car crash claims the life of driver Penny Alistair, a vibrant and popular high school student, and leaves her twin brother, Hobby, in a coma. The other passengers, Penny’s boyfriend Jake and...
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Elin Hilderbrand, read by Denice Hicks, Hachette Audio, unabridged, 13 CDs, 15 hrs., $34.98 ISBN 978-1-60-788240-4
Denice Hicks effectively sets the tone for Hilderbrand’s latest crowd-pleasing beach tale exploring the ups and downs of sibling rivalry, divorce, and the rekindling of long-dormant romantic passions. Admittedly, keeping track of the back-and-forth...
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Elin Hilderbrand. Little, Brown, $30 (384p) ISBN 978-0-316-25887-6
Hilderbrand closes out her long run of Nantucket novels (after The Five-Star Weekend) with an engrossing story of three mysterious newcomers. Leslee and Bull Richardson arrive at the multimillion-dollar house they’ve just purchased on Nantucket with
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Elin Hilderbrand. Little, Brown, $30 (384p) ISBN 978-0-316-25877-7
In this stunning, sun-drenched mix of romance and women’s fiction from bestseller Hilderbrand (The Hotel Nantucket), famous food blogger Hollis Shaw gathers one important woman from each decade of her life for an unforgettable girls’ trip to...
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Elin Hilderbrand. Little, Brown, $29 (384p) ISBN 978-0-316-42008-2
Hilderbrand (The Beach Club) expertly tugs at the heartstrings with this fantastical story of an unexpected death. After Nantucket novelist Vivi Howe is killed in a hit-and-run, her family and friends are left reeling, among them her pregnant...
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Elin Hilderbrand. Little, Brown, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-43558-1
Hilderbrand wraps up her Paradise series (after What Happens in Paradise) with this excellent story of secret lives and second chances. Things begin with Irene Steele’s husband, Russell, dying in a helicopter crash. Russell was ostensibly on a...
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Elin Hilderbrand. Little, Brown, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-43557-4
Hilderbrand’s captivating follow-up to 2018’s Winter in Paradise, continues the chronicle of Russell Steele’s family as they start over in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands,
after his suspicious death and the discovery of his hidden second life. After...
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Elin Hilderbrand. Little, Brown, $28 (432p) ISBN 978-0-316-42001-3
Hilderbrand (Winter in Paradise) delivers a superb novel about the goings-on of a family during the summer of 1969 in Nantucket, centered on four siblings. Mother Kate Levin has taken to drinking after her only son, Tiger, is drafted and sent to...
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