Golden girl : a novel / Elin Hilderbrand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hilderbrand, Elin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women authors--Death--Fiction.

Women authors.

Future life--Fiction.

Future life.

Hit-and-run drivers--Fiction.

Hit-and-run drivers.

Mother and child--Fiction.

Mother and child.

Secrecy--Fiction.

Secrecy.

Nantucket (Mass.)--Fiction.

Nantucket (Mass.).

Massachusetts--Nantucket.

Family members.

Mothers.

Children.

Genre:

Fantasy fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

377 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.

Summary:

Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while jogging near her home on Nantucket. In the Beyond, she's assigned to a Person named Martha, who allows Vivi to watch what happens below for one last summer. Vivi also is granted three 'nudges' to change the outcome of events on earth. Daughter Willa is on her third miscarriage; daughter Carson partying until all hours, and son Leo is currently 'off again' with his high-maintenance girlfriend. Vivi watches Ed Kapenash investigate her death, but her greatest worry is her final book, which contains a secret from her own youth that could be disastrous for her reputation. How should Vivi use her nudges-- or should she?

In this #1 bestselling page-turner from "the queen of beach reads" ( New York Magazine ), a Nantucket novelist has one final summer to protect her secrets while her loved ones on earth learn to live without their golden girl. -- On a perfect June day, Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while jogging near her home on Nantucket. She ascends to the Beyond where she's assigned to a Person named Martha, who allows Vivi to watch what happens below for one last summer. Vivi also is granted three "nudges" to change the outcome of events on earth, and with her daughter Willa on her third miscarriage, Carson partying until all hours, and Leo currently "off again" with his high-maintenance girlfriend, she'll have to think carefully where to use them. From the Beyond, Vivi watches "The Chief" Ed Kapenash investigate her death, but her greatest worry is her final book, which contains a secret from her own youth that could be disastrous for her reputation. But when hidden truths come to light, Vivi's family will have to sort out their past and present mistakes--with or without a nudge of help from above--while Vivi finally lets them grow without her. With all of Elin's trademark beach scenes, mouth-watering meals, and picture-perfect homes, plus a heartfelt message--the people we lose never really leave us-- Golden Girl is a beach book unlike any other.

ISBN:

9780316420082

0316420085

OCLC:

1250484883