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Violence
None
No violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
A lot
Explicit sexual content in the extramarital relationship
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking in the Nantucket social world
Emotional Intensity
Some
Infidelity and its domestic consequences, the particular guilt of choosing someone outside your marriage, the question of whether a choice made in happiness still causes harm
What this book is about
Claire Crispin, a married glass-blower on Nantucket, agrees to chair the island's big summer gala — and meets Lock Dixon, who runs the concert series she's organizing. The attraction is immediate and inappropriate. Hilderbrand writes an adultery story with the same warmth she brings to her beach fiction: no villains, just people making complicated choices in the full knowledge of what they're risking.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
explicit sexual content in context of an affair
infidelity as central plot
domestic consequences of attraction
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