Summer Secrets, Jane Green
Summer Secrets, Jane Green
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Summer Secrets
A Novel

Author: Jane Green

Narrator: Jane Green

Unabridged: 13 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/23/2015

Categories: Fiction, Women, Family Life


Synopsis

Told with Jane Green's keen eye for detailing the emotional landscape of the heart, Summer Secrets is at once a compelling drama and a beautifully rendered portrait of relationships, betrayals, and forgiveness; about accepting the things we cannot change, finding the courage to change the things we can, and being strong enough to weather the storms.

When a shocking family secret is revealed, twenty-something journalist Cat Coombs finds herself falling into a dark spiral. Wild, glamorous nights out in London and raging hangovers the next day become her norm, leading to a terrible mistake one night while visiting family in America, on the island of Nantucket. It's a mistake for which she can't forgive herself. When she returns home, she confronts the unavoidable reality of her life and knows it's time to grow up. But she doesn't know if she'll ever be able to earn the forgiveness of the people she hurt.

As the years pass, Cat grows into her forties, a struggling single mother, coping with a new-found sobriety and determined to finally make amends. Traveling back to her past, to the family she left behind on Nantucket all those years ago, she may be able to earn their forgiveness, but in doing so she may risk losing the very people she loves the most.

"Gripping and powerful."-Emily Giffin

"The perfect summer read...You'll be hooked." -Kristin Hannah

About Jane Green

A former feature writer for the Daily Express in the UK, Jane Green took a leap of faith when she left, in 1996, to freelance and work on a novel. Seven months later, there was a bidding war for her first book, Straight Talking, the saga of a single career girl looking for the right man. The novel was a hit in England, and Green was an overnight success. She's since written many bestselling novels including The Beach House, Second Chance, Jemima J, and Tempting Fate. Most weekends see her cooking for a minimum of twenty people in her home in Westport, Connecticut, where she lives with her husband and their blended family. When she is not writing, cooking, filling her house with friends and looking after their animals, she is usually thanking the Lord for caffeine-filled energy drinks.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Carole on June 23, 2015

This review can also be found at Carole's Random Life. 3 Stars I have been a fan of Jane Green ever since I picked up a copy of Mr. Maybe at a book sale quite a few years ago. I don't remember a whole lot about that book but I do remember loving it enough that I pretty much forced my best friend to r......more

Goodreads review by Janet | purrfectpages on July 03, 2015

I feel the need to preface this review by saying that when I love Jane Green, I LOVE Jane Green. Another Piece of My Heart is definitely one of my all time favorites. But now I've just finished Summer Secrets. And even long before I was done reading I knew it wasn't going to be of nearly the same ca......more

Goodreads review by Judy on June 23, 2015

A special thank you to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. O U T S T A N D I N G ! Master storyteller Jane Green delivers yet another powerful and gripping novel with SUMMER SECRETS (two winners in one year-impressive). Both, off the charts. A riveting, i......more


Quotes

“A gripping and powerful novel about finding the courage to make the life you want. This is Jane Green at her absolute best.” —Emily Giffin, New York Times bestselling author of The One and Only on Summer Secrets

“Warm, witty, sharp and insightful. Jane Green writes with such honesty and zing.” —Sophie Kinsella, bestselling author of Shopaholic to the Stars on Summer Secrets

“Summer Secrets is the perfect summer read. Once you dive into this story about a recovering alcoholic who must finally face her own dark past and make amends, you'll be hooked.” —Kristin Hannah on Summer Secrets

“Summer Secrets is the quintessential beach novel, complete with juicy drama and characters you fall madly in love with. You will devour it!” —Elin Hilderbrand