It Happens in the Hamptons: A Novel

by Holly Peterson Narrated by Em Eldridge

Overview

In the Hamptons, the everyday people are as complicated and fascinating as the millionaires...

When Katie Doyle moves across the country to the Hamptons, she is hoping for summer employment, new friends for her young son, and a chance to explore a new love affair with a dazzling investor. What she finds is a strange cocktail of classes, where society's one-percenters vacation alongside local, hard-working people who've lived in the Hamptons for generations. Though she's looking forward to their move, Katie is wary about mingling with her boyfriends' East Coast elite circles. She soon discovers Southampton isn't all that it seems to be on the surface-and neither are the people who live there.

As George takes Katie on a whirlwind tour of country clubs, haute couture, and lavish events, she is amazed to witness sudden whims become dire needs, extra-marital affairs blossoming right and left, and people purchase friends and loyalties like a pair of shoes. Even the middle-class townspeople maintain a determined façade while maneuvering like sharks among the wealthy summer invaders.

The more Katie becomes immersed, the more she learns the secrets of both the upstairs and downstairs, the upper crust and middle of the road. The combustion between the classes becomes explosive as the summer tears on. Betrayals, a sexual predator, and a missing person lost in murky waves drive the listener on a racing Learjet ride through impossible twists and turns until landing at the shocking conclusion. When she meets Luke, a local surfer and middle school teacher, he makes her question what it is she really wants as she understands the life she's begun for herself is built on shifting Hamptons' dunes.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Hugely entertaining! Put Holly Peterson’s IT HAPPENS IN THE HAMPTONS on your list of guilty pleasures this summer.” — Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of The Identicals

“In this irresistible beach read, a single mom lured to the Hamptons for the summer learns the ways of the 1 percent of the 1 percent. Peterson chronicles this crowd with firsthand knowledge and a sense of the ridiculous. She’s like Edith Wharton in Gucci flip-flops.” — People

“With It Happens in the Hamptons, Holly Peterson seals her place as the Proust of the beach blanket. Wonderfully observed and forensic in detail, it’s the ultimate insider novel of the Hamptons class divide at play.” — Tina Brown

“It Happens in the Hamptons is an sizzling beach read with all the right ingredients: sex, romance, class warfare, bikinis, and a mysterious man. If you can’t make it to the Hamptons this summer, this is the next best thing.” — Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City

“Readers will love the innocence of Katie and the way that Peterson has portrayed her in this novel. Many will love the scenic views of the Hamptons and the vivid descriptions of the hearts her acquaintances wear on their sleeve.” — RT Book Reviews

“It Happens in the Hamptons is an undeniably satisfying summer beach read... I couldn’t put it down. Holly Peterson has done a remarkable job bringing to life both summer society and surfer society, two worlds she also straddles in real life.” — Julia Reed

Jay McInerney

It Happens in the Hamptons is an sizzling beach read with all the right ingredients: sex, romance, class warfare, bikinis, and a mysterious man. If you can’t make it to the Hamptons this summer, this is the next best thing.

Julia Reed

It Happens in the Hamptons is an undeniably satisfying summer beach read... I couldn’t put it down. Holly Peterson has done a remarkable job bringing to life both summer society and surfer society, two worlds she also straddles in real life.

People

In this irresistible beach read, a single mom lured to the Hamptons for the summer learns the ways of the 1 percent of the 1 percent. Peterson chronicles this crowd with firsthand knowledge and a sense of the ridiculous. She’s like Edith Wharton in Gucci flip-flops.

Tina Brown

With It Happens in the Hamptons, Holly Peterson seals her place as the Proust of the beach blanket. Wonderfully observed and forensic in detail, it’s the ultimate insider novel of the Hamptons class divide at play.

RT Book Reviews

Readers will love the innocence of Katie and the way that Peterson has portrayed her in this novel. Many will love the scenic views of the Hamptons and the vivid descriptions of the hearts her acquaintances wear on their sleeve.

Elin Hilderbrand

Hugely entertaining! Put Holly Peterson’s IT HAPPENS IN THE HAMPTONS on your list of guilty pleasures this summer.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170211623
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	07/25/2017
Edition description:	Unabridged

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