The Five-Star Weekend

The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand, published by Little Brown on February 13, 2024, is a 384-page novel that explores the complexities of friendship and personal loss. After a tragic event disrupts her seemingly perfect life, food blogger Hollis Shaw invites four friends from different stages of her life to Nantucket for a weekend gathering. This event, inspired by the concept of a “Five-Star Weekend,” aims to reconnect and reflect, but it quickly reveals deeper issues and unresolved emotions among the group.
Readers will find a narrative that delves into themes of family life, marriage, and the intricacies of friendship. As Hollis navigates her grief and the dynamics with her friends, each character brings their own challenges and secrets to the weekend. The story unfolds against the backdrop of Nantucket, providing a setting that enhances the exploration of personal growth and the bonds that define us. The Five-Star Weekend presents a multifaceted look at how past relationships and current struggles intertwine, making for a thought-provoking read.
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hotel Nantucket: After tragedy strikes, food blogger Hollis Shaw gathers four friends from different stages in her life to spend an unforgettable weekend on 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 happens, 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.
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