![]() ![]() What I love most about Hildebrand’s novels is her characters–complex, well-drawn, imminently relatable regardless of their walks of life. And in each of their lives, Josh soon has a stake he could never have imagined. All three women have come to Nantucket to escape, to recoup, to strategize their future. ![]() Finally there’s Melanie, who after seven heartbreaking in vitro attempts, is finally pregnant–a joy now rendered tragic in the face of her husband’s ongoing affair with a coworker. ![]() Then Brenda, beautiful, smart, and currently unemployed after an ill-considered affair with one of her university students ends her promising career as a literature prof. There’s Vicki–hauling a precocious preschooler in one arm, a nursing infant in the other–too young to be dealing with the reality of lung cancer. It sounded like the start of a joke.” With these opening lines, college student Josh Flynn meets the core characters of Barefoot. Hilderbrand women’s fiction, set in her trademark Nantucket, faithfully delivers a quintessential beach read, whether I make it to the beach or not. No summer of mine would be complete without an Elin Hilderbrand novel, and this year’s choice was Barefoot (2007). ![]()
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