Description: What a perfect summer pleasure Hilderbrand provides in [this work], mixing the complexities of family life and friendship with suspense, romance, and moonlit Nantucket nights.--Nancy Thayer, author of "Custody."
Brief description: Elin Hilderbrand grew up in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, and is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a teaching/writing fellow. Her short fiction has appeared in Seventeen, The Massachusetts Review, and The Colorado Review. She lives with her family in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
Review Quotes:
"Things get more twisted at every turn with enough lies and betrayals to fuel a whole season of soap operas...readers will be hooked." --Publishers Weekly
"What a perfect summer pleasure Elin Hilderbrand provides in Nantucket Nights, mixing the complexities of family life and friendship with suspense, romance, and moonlit Nantucket nights." --Nancy Thayer, author of Custody "Dips deep into Peyton Place country." --Kirkus Reviews "Ms. Hilderbrand paints a picture of idyllic Nantucket life that slowly starts to unravel as the ugly underbelly is revealed. Hidden secrets, a mysterious disappearance, and the pain of betrayal form the basis for this haunting read." --Romantic Times "The novel is fast paced and suspenseful enough to keep readers interested. A likely candidate for summer-vacation reading." --Booklist