Name: Summer Island
SKU: 3974648
Price: 17.17 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Hannah Kristin
ISBN: 9780345483447

Type

Physical Book

Author

Hannah Kristin

Publisher

Ballantine Books

Year

2004

Language

English

Pages

448

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.4x13.2x2.5 cm

Weight

0.33 kg.

ISBN

0345483448

ISBN13

9780345483447

Synopsis "Summer Island "

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The author of the cherished bestseller On Mystic Lake returns with a poignant, funny, luminous novel about a mother and daughter--the complex ties that bind them, the past that separates them, and the healing that comes with forgiveness. "[Kristin] Hannah is superb at delving into the characters' psyches and delineating nuances of feeling."--Washington Post Book World Years ago, Nora Bridge walked out on her marriage and left her daughters behind. She has since become a famous radio talk-show host and newspaper columnist beloved for her moral advice. Her youngest daughter, Ruby, is a struggling comedienne who uses her famous mother as fuel for her bitter, cynical humor. When the tabloids unearth a scandalous secret from Nora's past, their estrangement suddenly becomes dramatic: Nora is injured in an accident and a glossy magazine offers Ruby a fortune to write a tell-all about her mother. Under false pretenses, Ruby returns home to take care of the woman she hasn't spoken to for almost a decade. Nora insists they retreat to Summer Island in the San Juans, to the lovely old house on the water where Ruby grew up, a place filled with childhood memories of love and joy and belonging. There Ruby is also reunited with her first love and his brother. Once, the three of them had been best friends, inseparable. Until the summer that Nora had left and everyone's hearts had been broken. . . . What began as an expose evolves, as Ruby writes, into an exploration of her family's past. Nora is not the woman Ruby has hated all these years. Witty, wise, and vulnerable, she is desperate to reconcile with her daughter. As the magazine deadline draws near and Ruby finishes what has begun to seem to her an act of brutal betrayal, she is forced to grow up and at last to look at her mother--and herself--through the eyes of a woman. And she must, finally, allow herself to love. Summer Island is a beautiful novel, funny, tender, sad, and ultimately triumphant.

Hannah Kristin

(Author)

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She is the author of more than twenty highly successful novels, for which she has received numerous awards and of which more than twenty million copies have been sold worldwide. The best sellers The Nightingale and The Great Alone were chosen as Best Historical Novel by Goodreads in 2015 and 2018. The Nightingale, which is being adapted into a film, won the coveted People's Choice Award for best novel. Firefly Lane has become a successful Netflix series. Kristin studied Law before becoming a professional writer and is a mother of one son. She lives with her husband in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States, near Seattle.

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