Summerland, Elin Hilderbrand
Summerland, Elin Hilderbrand
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Summerland
A Novel

Author: Elin Hilderbrand

Narrator: Erin Bennett

Unabridged: 13 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/26/2012

Synopsis

The "queen of the summer novel" explores the power of community, family, and honesty-and proves that even from the ashes of sorrow new love can take flight (Kirkus Reviews).

A warm June evening, a local tradition: the students of Nantucket High have gathered for a bonfire on the beach. What begins as a graduation night celebration ends in tragedy after a horrible car crash leaves the driver, Penny Alistair, dead, and her twin brother in a coma. The other passengers, Penny's boyfriend, Jake, and her friend Demeter, are physically unhurt--but the emotional damage is overwhelming. Questions linger about what happened before Penny took the wheel.

As summer unfolds, startling truths are revealed about the survivors and their parents, the secrets kept, promises broken, and hearts betrayed.

About Elin Hilderbrand

Elin Hilderbrand was born and raised in Collegeville, PA, but spent most of her childhood summers playing on Cape Cod. Her father died in a plane crash when she was sixteen years old, so unfortunately that ended the Cape trips. Her summers were now spent working, but she promised herself that for the rest of her life she would always have a real summer. She moved to Nantucket in July 1993, took a job as "the classified ads girl" at a local paper, and later started writing. Elin says she does her best writing while on the beaches of Nantucket or along the beautiful streets of Beacon Hill in Boston. She is a breast cancer survivor and currently lives in Nantucket along with her three beautiful children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Barbara on February 22, 2022

The evening of the high school graduation in Nantucket is a time for celebration. But the night ends tragically when sweet, talented Penny Alistair, a rising high school senior, takes the wheel of a Jeep containing her sports-phenom brother Hobby, her friend Demeter, and her boyfriend Jake. Penny see......more

Goodreads review by Kelly on June 29, 2012

When you see someone on the beach with a beverage in her hand, chances are she’s not reading War and Peace or Crime and Punishment. Summer is a time for what is commonly called “chick lit.” However, no matter how mindless you want your book to be, some of it can be just plain awful. Very few books t......more

Goodreads review by Grace (irisroman & evajacks' version) ✧ on October 20, 2022

Hmmm. This is definitely an interesting one to review, as I finished it with very mixed thoughts. I went in thinking it was gonna be a murder mystery in an exotic setting and it most definitely was NOT. Reading it was definitely a 50-50 experience- there were things I liked, things I really didn’t.......more

Goodreads review by Karen on August 08, 2024

Catching up… It is always fun for me when donations appear at my Little Free Library Shed. Especially getting a sense of what the neighborhood favorite authors are. And, certainly this author is one. So, hearing recently that she is “retiring” from writing it really has readers up in arms. In a June......more

Goodreads review by Kristy on November 10, 2019

It's high school graduation on Nantucket. But this usual time of celebration turns to tragedy when--on graduation night--a terrible car crashes kills one local student, Penny Alistair, and leaves her twin brother, Hobson, in a coma. Penny's boyfriend, Jake, and her friend, Demeter, are not hurt, at......more

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