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Violence
None
No violence
Language
Some
Contemporary language; some mild strong words
Sexual Content
A lot
Explicit-adjacent romantic content across the twenty-eight summers
Substance Use
Some
Social drinking—Nantucket summer culture
Emotional Intensity
Very heavy
The specific sadness of a love that can only exist in one weekend per year; the choices both make for their real lives; what twenty-eight years of secret means when it ends
What this book is about
Mallory and Jake fell in love and made a deal: every Labor Day weekend, just the two of them, on Nantucket. No other contact. For twenty-eight summers, they've kept it. 28 Summers is Hilderbrand's most emotionally ambitious novel—spanning decades, told in quick yearly glimpses.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Explicit-adjacent romantic content
Affair framing—both have other lives
Twenty-eight-year timeline—spans their adult lives
The ending—one of Hilderbrand's most discussed
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