Summer Darlings
Summer Darlings by Brooke Lea Foster, published by Simon and Schuster on April 27, 2021, is a reprint edition comprising 384 pages. This novel unfolds in 1962, following Heddy Winsome, a college student who leaves her challenging Brooklyn upbringing to work as a nanny for a wealthy family on Martha’s Vineyard. As Heddy navigates her new life, she becomes enamored with the glamorous couple and their children, while also confronting the complexities of privilege and the impact it has on her future.
Readers will find a richly woven narrative that explores themes of coming of age and the allure of wealth. Heddy’s journey is marked by her romantic entanglements and the stark realities of her situation, particularly when her scholarship at Wellesley is unexpectedly revoked. The story delves into the lives of various characters, from socialites to housekeepers, revealing that appearances can be deceiving. Summer Darlings captures the essence of a bygone era, offering insights into the struggles and aspirations of a young woman caught between two worlds.
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“Filled with 1960s nostalgia and a host of deftly drawn characters” (Renée Rosen, author of Park Avenue Summer), Summer Darlings pulls back the curtain on one mysterious and wealthy family as seen through the eyes of their nanny—a college student who, while falling in love on Martha’s Vineyard, is also forced to reckon with the dark side of privilege.
In 1962, coed Heddy Winsome leaves her hardscrabble Irish Brooklyn neighborhood behind and ferries to glamorous Martha’s Vineyard to nanny for one of the wealthiest families on the island. But as she grows enamored with the alluring and seemingly perfect young couple and chases after their two mischievous children, Heddy discovers that her academic scholarship at Wellesley has been revoked, putting her entire future at risk.
Determined to find her place in the couple’s wealthy social circles, Heddy nurtures a romance with the hip surfer down the beach while wondering if the better man for her might be a quiet, studious college boy instead. But no one she meets on the summer island—socialite, starlet, or housekeeper—is as picture-perfect as they seem, and she quickly learns that the right last name and a house in a tony zip code may guarantee privilege, but that rarely equals happiness.
Praised as “a perfect summer book packed with posh people, glamor, mystery, and one clever, brave, young nanny” by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer, Summer Darlings promises entrance to a rarefied world, for anyone who enjoyed Tigers in Red Weather or The Summer Wives.
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