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Overview

Every summer the Newton family retreats to their beloved home on Nantucket for three months of sunshine, cookouts, and bonfires on the beach. But this summer will not be like any other. When Arch Newton, a prominent New York attorney, dies in a plane crash on his way home from a business trip, his beautiful widow Beth can barely keep things together. Above all, though, she decides that she must continue the family tradition of going to Nantucket, and at the same time fulfill a promise that Arch made before he died.

Beth invites Marcus, the son of Arch's final and most challenging client, to spend the summer with her and her teenage twins Winnie and Garrett, who have mixed reactions to sharing their special summer place with this stranger. Always a place of peace before, Nantucket becomes the scene of roiling emotions and turbulent passions as Marcus, Winnie, and Garrett learn about loss, first love, and betrayal. And when they stumble upon a shocking secret from Beth's past, they must keep it from destroying the family they've been trying so hard to heal.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312628277
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • Publication date: 4/27/2010
  • Edition description: First Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 352
  • Sales rank: 69,656
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.20 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

Elin Hilderbrand is the author of The Island, Nantucket Nights, and The Blue Bistro, among others. She grew up in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, and is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a teaching/writing fellow. Her short fiction has appeared in Seventeen, The Massachusetts Review, and The Colorado Review. She lives with her husband, Chip Cunningham, and their two sons in Nantucket, Massachusetts.

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  • Posted April 20, 2010

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    an enjoyable tale starring a grieving family in crisis

    Attorney Arch Newton died in a plane crash. His grief-stricken widow Beth decides to go ahead with their summer plans leaving Manhattan for Nantucket accompanied by their twin children Garrett and Winnie. Also joining the Newton trio is seventeen year old Marcus; the son of a client accused of killing her sister-in-law and niece Arch was defending before he died; Arch invited Marcus.

    Grieving Garrett is angry with Marcus being with them as he blames the latter's mom for his dad's death. Nantucket native David, separated from his wife, wants a second chance with Beth who seems receptive foe a fling with her first love, but hides something from her wannabe lover and her offspring. Garrett and David's older daughter form a relationship as does Winnie with Marcus.

    The third Nantucket family drama (see The Beach Club and Nantucket Nights) is an enjoyable tale starring a grieving family in crisis. The cast is solid just not as deep as should be with each one dealing with the summer of his or her discontent. Although not profound, Summer People is a fine tale of three interlocking families struggling to move on.

    Harriet Klausner

    4 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted September 1, 2010

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    Steamy Romances...

    You want to become a guest at the summer home and try to help the characters through each of their ordeals. This book packed not one but three steamy romances.

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted July 6, 2010

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    Summer People is a Graet Summer Read!

    Loved it. Very touching and another page turner. Elin Hilderbrand is a natural story teller who can make you fall in love with any character!

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 26, 2004

    Enjoyable !

    This was a very believable book...i was sad that it ended also. I wanted to keep reading about what was to continue in their lives. Very quick read because i kept wanting to see what was going to happen next.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 23, 2004

    Best yet!

    Loved this book! Perfect summer read, could not keep my hands off it. Hilderbrand gets better with every book. Hope she's working on something new, can't wait to read more of her work.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 26, 2006

    Fast, fun read

    Like another of the readers said, the 'shocking' revelation at the end wasn't all that shocking at all, but that didn't take away any of the pleasure of reading this book, which was a perfect book to take on a cruise (which I did). The author is a natural born storyteller and that comes across in every book she writes. So sometimes the plot has holes. Or sometimes the characters do things that stretch credibility or that you don't agree with. If the story is well-written, engrossing and entertaining, who cares? Lighten up, people! The author isn't pretending to be a literary giant. She's writing to give us a few hours of pleasure, and she succeeded with this book.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 28, 2004

    Boring Summer People

    I can never resist a book whose 'blurb' promises a shocking secret. The only shock was that the composer of the blurb considered the secret in this book shocking. I did not like the characters at all - found them one-dimensional and the plot simplistic. My suggestion is that you find better beach reading.

    1 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 17, 2012

    Summer People

    Love!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 30, 2012

    Sapphire

    If thst can b donr yes

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 1, 2012

    Goldenwillow

    Check with ur daddy.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 25, 2011

    Not one of her best

    I have read several of Elin Hilderbrand's and this was definitely not her best.

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted October 3, 2011

    Recommended

    I thoroughly enjoyed this book and many of the others by Elin Hilderbrand. The Nantucket setting is lovely.....it sounds like a really nice place to live.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 13, 2011

    Loved it!

    This was a great read. Typical Elin Hildebrand, but that's what I love about her books. They might all take place in the same area, but each one has it's own story, and leaves me wanting to read the next one.

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 8, 2011

    thought-provoking

    Enjoyable read from a favorite author...brings humaness to some of the headline stories we judge so quickly

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  • Posted August 16, 2011

    Good easy read

    I liked reading it. Had a slow start i felt. Ended not as I hoped.

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  • Posted July 20, 2011

    Love the author, but least favorite of her books.

    Having read mist if the authors books, i anticipated loving this like her others, but didn't. Charachters (other than Arch in the epilogue and Marcus overall) were annoying and the adults flaky (Beth becomes ok with the pregnancy and accepts it as soon as someine asks for dessert? Really?) The story got to its end long before i came to care about most of the people in it.

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 29, 2011

    Great summer read OR great when you're craving summer!

    This was the first book I read by Elin Hilderbrand and I am now reading though her other books! This along with her other books I have read are page turners that I just cannot put down! I got my friends hooked on Elin Hilderbrand now and they have read Summer People and I love being able to see what they think about things in the book!

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  • Posted May 24, 2011

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    Great Summer Read

    This was a nice easy read. The characters were very relatable and before I knew it I had finished. I wish the end had been different but that was just me....good smooth read.

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  • Posted May 22, 2011

    LOVED IT!!!

    I am hooked on Elin Hilderbrand's books!!! Summer People draws you into the lives of the characters from the very first page!!! Summer People is a MUST READ for this summer ;-)

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  • Posted September 28, 2010

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    Just OK

    I usually like this author a lot but this book just dragged on a little to long and this family had one problem after the other, I finished it only because I wanted to see what happened.

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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