Elin Hilderbrand lives on Nantucket with her husband and their three young children. She grew up in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, and traveled extensively before settling on Nantucket, which has been the setting for her five previous novels. Hilderbrand is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the graduate fiction workshop at the University of Iowa.
Barefoot
Paperback
(Reprint)
- ISBN-13: 9780316018593
- Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
- Publication date: 06/09/2008
- Edition description: Reprint
- Pages: 432
- Sales rank: 8,261
- Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.20(d)
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Visiting Nantucket for the summer, three women seek peace and comfort as they cope with the challenges in their livesfrom marriage, infidelity, and the mayhem of motherhood to scandal, tragedy, and illness.
Three womenburdened with small children, unwieldy straw hats, and some obvious emotional issuestumble onto the Nantucket airport tarmac one hot June day. Vicki is trying to sort through the news that she has a serious illness. Her sister, Brenda, has just left her job after being caught in an affair with a student. And their friend Melanie, after seven failed in vitro attempts, is pregnant at lastbut only after learning that her husband is having an affair. They have come to escape, enjoy the sun, and relax in Nantucket's calming air. But into the house, into their world, steps twenty-two-year-old Josh Flynn.
Barefoot weaves these four lives together in a story with enthralling sweep and scopea novel that is as fun and memorable and bittersweet as that one perfect day of summer.
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