It started off fine, alternating chapters between “the present” (1938) and “the past” (1931), telling the story of Lily Dane and Nick Greenwald’s ill-fated love affair in 1931 and Lily’s present day (1938) heartache when she learns that Nick and his wife, Lily’s former childhood best friend Budgie, are summering in the same resort town as Lily. Well, this is another book that I wanted to like and it just did not work for me. Under the scorching summer sun, the unexpected truth of Budgie and Nick’s marriage bubbles to the surface, and as a cataclysmic hurricane barrels unseen up the Atlantic and into New England, Lily and Nick must confront an emotional cyclone of their own, which will change their worlds forever. But the ties that bind Lily to Nick are too strong and intricate to ignore, and the two are drawn back into long-buried dreams, despite their uneasy secrets and many emotional obligations.

Budgie’s arrival to restore her family’s old house puts her once more in the center of the community’s social scene, and she insinuates herself back into Lily's friendship with an overpowering talent for seduction.and an alluring acquaintance from their college days, Yankees pitcher Graham Pendleton. Nick and Budgie Greenwald are an unwelcome specter from Lily’s past: her former best friend and her former fiancé, now recently married-an event that set off a wildfire of gossip among the elite of Seaview, who have summered together for generations.

That is, until Greenwalds decide to take up residence in Seaview.

Beatriz’s books have won numerous awards, have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and appear regularly in bestseller lists around the world.īorn in Seattle, Washington, Beatriz now lives near the Connecticut shore with her husband and four children, where she divides her time between writing and laundry.Memorial Day, 1938: New York socialite Lily Dane has just returned with her family to the idyllic oceanfront community of Seaview, Rhode Island, expecting another placid summer season among the familiar traditions and friendships that sustained her after heartbreak.

Beatriz Williams is the New York Times, USA Today and internationally bestselling author of OUR WOMAN IN MOSCOW, THE SUMMER WIVES, HER LAST FLIGHT, THE GOLDEN HOUR, THE SECRET LIFE OF VIOLET GRANT, A HUNDRED SUMMERS and several other works of historical fiction, including three novels in collaboration with fellow bestselling authors Karen White and Lauren Willig.Ī graduate of Stanford University with an MBA in Finance from Columbia University, Beatriz worked as a communications and corporate strategy consultant in New York and London before she turned her attention to writing novels that combine her passion for history with an obsessive devotion to voice and characterization.

A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams