Summer Darlings, Brooke Lea Foster
Summer Darlings, Brooke Lea Foster
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Summer Darlings

Author: Brooke Lea Foster

Narrator: Rebekkah Ross

Unabridged: 11 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/05/2020


Synopsis

“Filled with 1960s nostalgia and a host of deftly drawn characters” (Renée Rosen, author of Park Avenue Summer), Summer Darlings pulls back the curtain on one mysterious and wealthy family as seen through the eyes of their nanny—a college student who, while falling in love on Martha’s Vineyard, is also forced to reckon with the dark side of privilege.

In 1962, coed Heddy Winsome leaves her hardscrabble Irish Brooklyn neighborhood behind and ferries to glamorous Martha’s Vineyard to nanny for one of the wealthiest families on the island. But as she grows enamored with the alluring and seemingly perfect young couple and chases after their two mischievous children, Heddy discovers that her academic scholarship at Wellesley has been revoked, putting her entire future at risk.

Determined to find her place in the couple’s wealthy social circles, Heddy nurtures a romance with the hip surfer down the beach while wondering if the better man for her might be a quiet, studious college boy instead. But no one she meets on the summer island—socialite, starlet, or housekeeper—is as picture-perfect as they seem, and she quickly learns that the right last name and a house in a tony zip code may guarantee privilege, but that rarely equals happiness.

Praised as “a perfect summer book packed with posh people, glamor, mystery, and one clever, brave, young nanny” by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer, Summer Darlings promises entrance to a rarefied world, for anyone who enjoyed Tigers in Red Weather or The Summer Wives.

About Brooke Lea Foster

Brooke Lea Foster is an award-winning journalist whose articles have appeared in The New York TimesThe Washington Post MagazineThe AtlanticThe Boston Globe Magazine, and People, among others. An alumna of The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, she is the author of three nonfiction books and the novels Summer DarlingsOn Gin Lane, and All the Summers In Between.


Reviews

Note: I received a free copy of Summer Darlings by Brooke Lea Foster, in exchange for an honest review. I wanted to like this book, but honestly, it felt like work to read it. 😬 I can’t put my finger on it exactly, it’s got the bones of a decent enough story. But all the meat was just raw and not ver......more

Goodreads review by Tina

I think this was a really good debut novel and I did enjoy Brooke Lea Foster's writing. I loved the setting and time period! Martha's Vineyard in the summer of 1962 amongst all the jet-set rich. It's a good coming-of-age story about a college girl named, Heddy who is hired by a wealthy family to be......more