Little, Brown and Company
June 2019
On Sale: June 18, 2019
432 pages ISBN: 0316420018 EAN: 9780316420013 Kindle: B07J564ZHD Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and
upheaval of a summer when everything
changed, in New York Times
bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical
novel
Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth
century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they
are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward
to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home
in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America,
nothing is the same: Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned
in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Middle
sister Kirby, caught up in the thrilling vortex of civil
rights protests and determined to be independent, takes a
summer job on Martha's Vineyard. Only-son Tiger is an
infantry soldier, recently deployed to Vietnam.
Thirteen-year-old Jessie suddenly feels like an only child,
marooned in the house with her out-of-touch grandmother and
her worried mother, each of them hiding a troubling secret.
As the summer heats up, Ted Kennedy sinks a car in
Chappaquiddick, man flies to the moon, and Jessie and her
family experience their own dramatic upheavals along with
the rest of the country.
In her first historical novel, rich with the details of an
era that shaped both a nation and an island thirty miles out
to sea, Elin Hilderbrand once again earns her title as queen
of the summer novel.
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