All the Summers In Between
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- USD 13.99
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- USD 13.99
Publisher Description
“Make room in your beach bag for this mesmerizing book” (Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author) about two estranged friends whose unexpected reconnection in the Hamptons forces them to finally confront the terrible event that drove them apart.
When wealthy, impulsive Margot meets hardworking and steady Thea in the summer of 1967, the unlikely pair become fast friends, working alongside one another in a record store and spending every spare moment together. But after an unspeakable incident on one devastating August night, they don’t see one another for ten years…until Margot suddenly reappears in Thea’s life, begging for help and harboring more than one dangerous secret. Thea can’t bring herself to refuse her beloved friend—but she also knows she can’t fully trust her either.
Unfulfilled as a housewife, Thea enjoys the dazzling sense of adventure Margot brings to her life, but will the truth of what happened to them that fateful summer ruin everything? Testing the boundaries of how far she’ll go for a friend, Thea is forced to reckon with her uncertain future while trying to decide if some friends are meant to remain in the past.
Set in the dual timelines of 1967 and 1977, All the Summers In Between is at once “a taut, dynamic examination” (Lynda Cohen Loigman, author of The Wartime Sisters) of a complex friendship, a delicious glimpse into a bygone Hamptons, and a powerful coming-of-age story of two young women during a transformative era.
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Foster's clunky latest (following On Gin Lane) sees two friends reconnect after one of them winds up in danger. It's 1977 and Thea has just celebrated her 30th birthday with friends and family in her hometown of East Hampton, N.Y. After the party, her former friend Margot shows up out of the blue with a vague story about her husband, Willy, a successful restaurateur with Mafia connections, and says she needs to hide out. As the story toggles between past and present, the reader learns more about the summer of 1967, when the women became close friends, but were driven apart following a violent incident they've kept secret ever since (the details come out much later). Middle-class Thea dreamed of becoming an illustrator, but gave up those ambitions and devoted herself to her family. Margot, in contrast, was one of the wealthy people who summered in the Hamptons—her father was a renowned morning show anchor, her mother was editor-in-chief of the New York Herald—and she rebelled against her parents by marrying Willy. There's very little depth to the characterizations, and the descriptions often feel phoned in ("She glowed as if she'd spent the morning at the beach"). In the crowded field of beach reads, this fails to stand out.
