But the ties that bind Lily to Nick are too strong and intricate to ignore, and the two are drawn back into long-buried dreams, despite their uneasy secrets and many emotional obligations. Budgie’s arrival to restore her family’s old house puts her once more in the center of the community’s social scene, and she insinuates herself back into Lily's friendship with an overpowering talent for seduction.and an alluring acquaintance from their college days, Yankees pitcher Graham Pendleton. 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.

Novels as masterfully done as A Hundred Summers come along only about that often.

A hundred summers by beatriz williams