BLOGWORDS – Tuesday 1 April 2025 – TUESDAY REVIEWS-DAY – BOOK REVIEW – SUMMER ISLAND by KRISTIN HANNAH

BLOGWORDS – Tuesday 1 April 2025 – TUESDAY REVIEWS-DAY – BOOK REVIEW – SUMMER ISLAND by KRISTIN HANNAH

TUESDAY REVIEWS-DAY - BOOK REVIEW – SUMMER ISLAND by KRISTIN HANNAH

 

THE BOOK

 

THE BLURB

Years ago, Nora Bridge walked out on her marriage and left her daughters behind. She has since become a famous radio talk-show host and newspaper columnist beloved for her moral advice. Her youngest daughter, Ruby, is a struggling comedienne who uses her famous mother as fuel for her bitter, cynical humor. When the tabloids unearth a scandalous secret from Nora’s past, their estrangement suddenly becomes dramatic: Nora is injured in an accident and a glossy magazine offers Ruby a fortune to write a tell-all about her mother. Under false pretenses, Ruby returns home to take care of the woman she hasn't spoken to for almost a decade.

Nora insists they retreat to Summer Island in the San Juans, to the lovely old house on the water where Ruby grew up, a place filled with childhood memories of love and joy and belonging. There Ruby is also reunited with her first love and his brother. Once, the three of them had been best friends, inseparable. Until the summer that Nora had left and everyone's hearts had been broken. . . .

What began as an expose evolves, as Ruby writes, into an exploration of her family’s past. Nora is not the woman Ruby has hated all these years. Witty, wise, and vulnerable, she is desperate to reconcile with her daughter. As the magazine deadline draws near and Ruby finishes what has begun to seem to her an act of brutal betrayal, she is forced to grow up and at last to look at her mother—and herself—through the eyes of a woman. And she must, finally, allow herself to love. 

THE AUTHOR

Kristin Hannah is the award-winning and bestselling author of more than 20 novels. Her newest novel, The Women, about the nurses who served in the Vietnam war, will be released on February 6, 2024.

The Four Winds was published in February of 2021 and immediately hit #1 on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Indie bookstore's bestseller lists. Additionally, it was selected as a book club pick by the both Today Show and The Book Of the Month club, which named it the best book of 2021.

In 2018, The Great Alone became an instant New York Times #1 bestseller and was named the Best Historical Novel of the Year by Goodreads.

In 2015, The Nightingale became an international blockbuster and was Goodreads Best Historical fiction novel for 2015 and won the coveted People's Choice award for best fiction in the same year. It was named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, iTunes, Buzzfeed, the Wall Street Journal, Paste, and The Week.

The Nightingale is currently in pre-production at Tri Star. Firefly Lane, her beloved novel about two best friends, was the #1 Netflix series around the world, in the week it came out. The popular tv show stars Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke.

A former attorney, Kristin lives in the Pacific Northwest.

 

 

MY REVIEW

How well this reader knows the agony of estrangement. The beauty of this story, the truth of the human heart that defies logical thinking—the author understands the human condition and character.

As she pulls the layers back of the secrets of Nora’s past, secrets she has long buried, the truth comes out and Ruby finds it hard to maintain the hatred that she has felt for so many years.

Poignant and deep and heart wrenching, this story pulls at heart strings, provokes tears, and inspires hope.

There is so much in this story, so many layers, such depth, such honesty.

 

 

ROBIN’S FEATHERS

ALL | THE | FEATHERS!

 

 

This book was given to me as a gift. The opinions expressed in my review are my own honest thoughts and reaction to this book.

 

 

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