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The Island - Elin Hilderbrand (2010)
Birdie arranges to return to her family's holiday home on Tuckernuck Island in Massachusetts for the first time in 13 years. Recently divorced from husband Grant, she invites her two daughters Chess and Tate, and sister India to join her. Chess definitely needs some seclusion to recover from the devastating fallout of her broken engagement. Tate, who has made herself a comfortable but lonely life through IT, is returning to the island with the hopes of seeing her long-time crush Barrett, the caretaker. And India, who is still reeling from the suicide of her sculptor husband Bill, is contemplating a different sort of relationship. The island's isolation allows the women to come to terms with where their lives have taken them - and let their secrets seep out. Chess' story is particularly captivating. Some of the twists will make you gasp louder than the characters who are forced to endure cold showers due to the island's basic plumbing.
One of the things that heralds the upcoming northern summer is a new Elin Hilderbrand novel. This year it's The Island, out in July, about two sets of sisters who escape for the summer. The summary says: "Birdie Cousins has planned a getaway with her daughter Chess on rustic, charming Tuckernuck Island off the coast of Nantucket, a chance to bond before Chess' upcoming marriage. Birdie's been through a difficult divorce herself, so she knows the big commitment that marriage entails. She's only recently dared to tiptoe back into the waters of romance. When Chess abruptly breaks off the wedding and her fiance shockingly dies in a rock climbing accident, it leaves Chess feeling guilty and deeply depressed. Birdie circles the wagons, convincing her younger daughter Tate, and her own sister India to join them on Tuckernuck for the month of July. Secrets and intrigue soon make their way to the surface."