The Five-Star Weekend
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Publisher Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hotel Nantucket: After tragedy strikes, Hollis Shaw gathers four friends from different stages in her life to spend an unforgettable weekend on Nantucket, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hotel Nantucket.
Hollis Shaw’s life seems picture-perfect. She’s the creator of the popular food blog Hungry with Hollis and is married to Matthew, a dreamy heart surgeon. But after she and Matthew get into a heated argument one snowy morning, he leaves for the airport and is killed in a car accident. The cracks in Hollis’s perfect life—her strained marriage and her complicated relationship with her daughter, Caroline—grow deeper.
So when Hollis hears about something called a “Five-Star Weekend”—one woman organizes a trip for her best friend from each phase of her life: her teenage years, her twenties, her thirties, and midlife—she decides to host her own Five-Star Weekend on Nantucket. But the weekend doesn’t turn out to be a joyful Hallmark movie.
The husband of Hollis’s childhood friend Tatum arranges for Hollis’s first love, Jack Finigan, to spend time with them, stirring up old feelings. Meanwhile, Tatum is forced to play nice with abrasive and elitist Dru-Ann, Hollis’s best friend from UNC Chapel Hill. Dru-Ann’s career as a prominent Chicago sports agent is on the line after her comments about a client’s mental health issues are misconstrued online. Brooke, Hollis’s friend from their thirties, has just discovered that her husband is having an inappropriate relationship with a woman at work. Again! And then there’s Gigi, a stranger to everyone (including Hollis) who reached out to Hollis through her blog. Gigi embodies an unusual grace and, as it hap- pens, has many secrets.
The Five-Star Weekend is a surprising and captivating story about friendship, love, and self-discovery set on Nantucket. It will be a weekend like no other.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
It isn’t truly summer vacation without a bittersweet beach read from Elin Hilderbrand. After suffering a sudden and devastating loss, fiftysomething food blogger Hollis Shaw invites four very different women—her best friends from her teens, twenties, thirties, and now—to her gorgeous Nantucket beach home for an all-girls weekend. With her grieving film-student daughter back home to document, Hollis and her support circle bond, process their emotions, and open up old wounds. Each of Hilderbrand’s well-rounded characters carries her own compelling emotional baggage, not to mention a closely guarded secret or two. Erin Bennett crisply narrates the tale, emoting perfectly through the characters’ many ups and downs. We devoured this tragicomic story of forgiveness, love, and second chances amidst the sea glass and Lilly Pulitzer skirts.
Customer Reviews
The Five Star Weekend
Such a great easy read. Fun summer beach read. Characters are people you know and enjoy.
Not what I expected
This story told a lot about various friends and their lives but the story line was very boring. Almost didn’t finish.
Friends for life! 5 star!
Great character development! An interesting twist in the plot but at times the book dragged on. I really did enjoyed it!