We were visiting my cousin in London and traveled with our friends throughout Italy: 3 days each in Praiano and Taormina, 2 days each in Siracusa and Modica, and finally met up with Garrett’s parents in Germany. Middle sister Kirby, caught up in the thrilling vortex of civil rights protests and determined to be independent, takes a summer job on Martha's Vineyard.In July, Garrett and I were in Greece (Athens and Santorini), the U.K (London), Ireland (Garrett spent 24 hours in Dingle for my cousin’s stag party), Italy (Praiano on the Amalfi Coast and Taormina, Siracusa, and Modica in Sicily), and Germany (Bacharach and Munich). But like so much else in America, nothing is the same: Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Stony Creek/Willoughby Wallace Adult Books on CDįour siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed, in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century.

North Branford/Smith Adult Fiction Book on CD North Branford/Atwater Adult Fiction Book on CD In her first historical novel, rich with the details of an era that shaped both a nation and an island thirty miles out to sea, Elin Hilderbrand once again earns her title as queen of the summer novel. As the summer heats up, Ted Kennedy sinks a car in Chappaquiddick, man flies to the moon, and Jessie and her family experience their own dramatic upheavals along with the rest of the country. Thirteen-year-old Jessie suddenly feels like an only child, marooned in the house with her out-of-touch grandmother and her worried mother, each of them hiding a troubling secret. Only-son Tiger is an infantry soldier, recently deployed to Vietnam. Middle sister Kirby, caught up in the thrilling vortex of civil rights protests and determined to be independent, takes a summer job on Martha's Vineyard.

Stony Creek/Willoughby Wallace Adult Fictionįour siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed, in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century.

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