Nick and Budgie Greenwald are an unwelcome specter from Lily’s past: her former best friend and her former fiancé, now recently marriedan event that set off a wildfire of gossip among the elite of Seaview, who have summered together for generations.

That is, until Greenwalds decide to take up residence in Seaview. Memorial Day, 1938: New York socialite Lily Dane has just returned with her family to the idyllic oceanfront community of Seaview, Rhode Island, expecting another placid summer season among the familiar traditions and friendships that sustained her after heartbreak. Add in a betrayal between friends, a marriage for money, and a Yankee pitcher, and it’s a perfect storm.” Good Housekeeping One of summer’s best beach reads, as named by People magazine, Vanity Fair, O: The Oprah Magazine and Good Housekeeping.

It is what every beach book should aspire to be smart and engrossing.”≾lin Hilderbrand, author of Beautiful Day and the bestselling Summerland fast-paced love storythe scorching sun illuminates a friend’s betrayal and reignites a romance.” O, The Oprah Magazine Summer of 1938: A scandalous love triangle and a famous hurricane converge in a New England beach community. Beatriz Williams delivers an intricately woven tale of friendship, betrayal, old families, and closely guarded secrets. And as the spectre of war in Europe looms, a storm threatens to destroy everything.Novels as masterfully done as A Hundred Summers come along only about that often. During lazy days and gin-soaked nights, Lily is drawn back under Budgie's glamorous and enticing influence, and the truth behind Budgie and Nick's betrayal of Lily begins to emerge. What she gets instead is the pain of facing newlyweds Budgie and Nick Greenwald - her former best friend and former fiance. I wish I had taken down every detail, because I didn't see him again until the summer of 1938 the summer the hurricane came and washed the world away.' Lily Dane has returned to the exclusive enclave of Seaview, Rhode Island, hoping for an escape from the city and from her heartbreak. A sweltering summer of secrets, passion and betrayal. What she gets instead is the pain of facing newlyweds Budgie and.

A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams