Little Brown and Company
Featuring: Margaret Quinn; Kevin; Kelley Quinn
256 pages ISBN: 0316376116 EAN: 9780316376112 Kindle: B00I828BD0 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
In this novel we get to know the complicated Quinn family.
Kelley, the father
of the group, has just discovered his second wife Mitzi
has been cheating
on him for twelve years, and is leaving him. Kelley is
left running their
business, The Winter Street Inn, and the Christmas Eve
party for the
island, but business has not been good lately and he is
going to have to
sell it. He also struggles with lingering feelings for his
first wife, Margaret,
the mother of three of his four children. Kelley is not
sure how he will
survive this Christmas.
Patrick is the eldest child and has always been the golden
boy. But this
Christmas his world is falling down as he is embroiled in
an insider trading
case, and his wife has taken their three boys away to
figure it all out. So he
finds himself back home in the inn, terrified that he has
lost the most
important people in his life.
Next in line is Kevin. Kevin has had his share of
heartbreak, getting married
at a young age to someone who never truly loved him, and
subsequently
divorced. Kevin manages the local bar on the island and is
viewed as the
ultimate bachelor by his family. But Kevin has a secret -
he has found real
love but is he brave enough to grab it with both hands?
Ava is the only daughter of the family. Teaching music in
the local school,
she wants what a lot of girls want - to be loved, to get
married and to have
a family of her own. As she tries to be the perfect
girlfriend to Nathaniel,
she always feels that he treats her more like a
comfortable pair of shoes,
rather than the woman he adores. When Nathaniel ups and
leaves town
without telling Ava before Christmas,to spend it with his
folks back home
and his ex-girlfriend, Ava finds herself assessing what
she wants for her
life. And what will she do when sparks begin to fly
between her and her
best friend Scott?
Bart is the baby of the group, and the only child fathered
by Kelley and
Mitzi. Having been a spoiled trouble maker growing up, at
nineteen, Bart
has joined the Marines and has been deployed to
Afghanistan.
Finally there is Margaret, Kelley's first wife. A high
flying news anchor,
Margaret plans to spend her Christmas vacation in Maui
with a sexy doctor,
relaxing and having fun. But when her family begins to
fall apart piece by
piece, and she gets some information that could devastate
everyone she
cares about, Margaret finds herself at the Winter Street
Inn. Will the Quinn
family be able to weather the storm that is on its way?
WINTER STREET by Elin Hilderbrand is everything I look for
in a novel.
The story flows naturally, the characters are intriguing
and loveable, the
twists and turns held my attention throughout, and the
book left me wanting
more! I love that each chapter is specific to a character,
and that even
though they all have upheaval in their lives in some shape
or form, they still
blend well together as a family when they are reunited.
WINTER STREET ends on
a cliffhanger and I will be the first one in line to get
the next installment.
WINTER STREET by Elin Hilderbrand is an utterly compelling
story about
making mistakes, real love and the meaning of family.
In bestseller Elin Hilderbrand's first Christmas novel, a
family gathers on Nantucket for a holiday filled with
surprises.
Kelley Quinn is the owner of Nantucket's Winter Street Inn
and the proud father of four, all of them grown and living
in varying states of disarray. Patrick, the eldest, is a
hedge fund manager with a guilty conscience. Kevin, a
bartender, is secretly sleeping with a French housekeeper
named Isabelle. Ava, a school teacher, is finally dating
the
perfect guy but can't get him to commit. And Bart, the
youngest and only child of Kelley's second marriage to
Mitzi, has recently shocked everyone by joining the
Marines.
As Christmas approaches, Kelley is looking forward to
getting the family together for some quality time at the
inn. But when he walks in on Mitzi kissing Santa Claus (or
the guy who's playing Santa at the inn's annual party),
utter chaos descends. With the three older children each
reeling in their own dramas and Bart unreachable in
Afghanistan, it might be up to Kelley's ex-wife, nightly
news anchor Margaret Quinn, to save Christmas at the
Winter
Street Inn.
Before the mulled cider is gone, the delightfully
dysfunctional Quinn family will survive a love triangle,
an
unplanned pregnancy, a federal crime, a small house fire,
many shots of whiskey, and endless rounds of Christmas
caroling, in this heart-warming novel about coming home
for
the holidays.
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