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The Summer Wives

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The Summer Wives

De: Beatriz Williams
Narrado por: Kristin Kalbli
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New York Times best-selling author Beatriz Williams brings us the blockbuster novel of the season - an electrifying postwar fable of love, class, power, and redemption set among the inhabitants of an island off the New England coast....

In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society, still reeling from the loss of her father in the Second World War. When her beautiful mother marries Hugh Fisher, whose summer house on Winthrop overlooks the famous lighthouse, Miranda’s catapulted into a heady new world of pedigrees and cocktails, status and swimming pools. Isobel Fisher, Miranda’s new stepsister - all long legs and world-weary bravado, engaged to a wealthy Island scion - is eager to draw Miranda into the arcane customs of Winthrop society.

But beneath the island’s patrician surface, there are really two clans: the summer families with their steadfast ways and quiet obsessions, and the working class of Portuguese fishermen and domestic workers who earn their living on the water and in the laundries of the summer houses. Uneasy among Isobel’s privileged friends, Miranda finds herself drawn to Joseph Vargas, whose father keeps the lighthouse with his mysterious wife. In summer, Joseph helps his father in the lobster boats, but in the autumn he returns to Brown University, where he’s determined to make something of himself. Since childhood, Joseph’s enjoyed an intense, complex friendship with Isobel Fisher, and as the summer winds to its end, Miranda’s caught in a catastrophe that will shatter Winthrop’s hard-won tranquility and banish Miranda from the island for nearly two decades.

Now, in the landmark summer of 1969, Miranda returns at last, as a renowned Shakespearean actress hiding a terrible heartbreak. On its surface, the Island remains the same - determined to keep the outside world from its shores, fiercely loyal to those who belong. But the formerly powerful Fisher family is a shadow of itself, and Joseph Vargas has recently escaped the prison where he was incarcerated for the murder of Miranda’s stepfather 18 years earlier. What’s more, Miranda herself is no longer a naïve teenager, and she begins a fierce, inexorable quest for justice for the man she once loved...even if it means uncovering every last one of the secrets that bind together the families of Winthrop Island.

©2018 Beatriz Williams (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers
Ficción Ficción Histórica Ficción de mujeres Género Ficción Romance Vida Familiar Verano Isla Sincero
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Slow to start but great ending

I enjoyed this book! It was slow to start but really picked up in the end. I really enjoyed the characters as well. The book jumps to different eras and points of view but that made the mystery fun as well.

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Flawless story and performance!

Ms. B has done it again! This is an extraordinary novel performed by the perfect voice artist! I love the characters and style of this novel, which boosts this author to the very top of my list of favorites. Everything about this story from the setting to the last Afterword sings with beauty, authenticity and historical accuracy. I’m sorry it took me a few weeks longer than expected to purchase this one. Thank you for a terrific listen!

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Great listen!

Perfect for a long boring car ride coming back from summer vacation. I was driving by myself and didn’t stop for lunch!

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Read for a Book Club and enjoyed it

It started out a bit confusing so I also downloaded the pdf to read alongside which helped the confusion in the beginning. I ended up getting caught up in the book although I typically read non-fiction. It wasn't the typical romance novel, but the plot was strangely compelling.

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Mystery, lyrical prose and fascinating setting

Finally a novel worth recommending on its literary merit and enjoyment level. The characters struggle with social position or lack of, distilled on a small island, the hypocrisy of the times, and of money-always money-and the tension eventually expressed in murder... plus a destined romance, make this an enthralling “listen” or read. I only wish the author could refrain from occasionally confiding to the reader with “You know?”

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voice for all the male characters was awful.

like scratching on a chalkboard. couldn’t stand the narrator ( a woman) trying to sound like a man. made al the men unattractive because their voices were so whimpy.
not a great story either. sorry.

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I loved it!

Beatriz Williams never ceases to amaze me with her books. Every one is just as good, if not better, than the last. The Summer Wives captured me immediately. I love the subtle inspiring quotes, the strong female characters, and the love stories. And as always, I love how the characters somehow intertwine throughout her books.

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Couldn't stop listening!

This story kept me hooked until the end!! I walked many more miles than I needed to just to keep listening! I wish the author would have taken it just a bit farther as I wanted so much to hear the words between Miranda and Joseph when he finally returned to her . Really showed what tragedy love can cause...as well as the joy and healing of brokenness. Narrator was great...easily transitioned to the various characters voices and accents. Absolutely worth the credit!

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Enjoyable and well written summer read

Well written, believable and kept me interested and eager to get back to listening. Characters well developed. Good narrator who read the story well and who did a good job differentiating voices, but as others have said, I found myself cringing a little at the New York ish attempt at a New England accent. Also Izzy's voice did not fit my conception of her strong character at all - she sounded like a breathy, baby voiced Marilyn Monroe. Male voices also had a weird Elmer Fudd, corny tendency.

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Perfect summer read

Just what I was looking for in a summer book. Intriguing and entertaining. And it doesn't hurt that Kristin Kalbli does an amazing job with the narration.

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