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Violence
None
No violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language in a beach-read register
Sexual Content
Some
Adult relationships and some intimate content; nothing explicit
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking in a Nantucket setting
Emotional Intensity
Some
Grief over a spouse's death; friendship tension; a woman reassembling her identity mid-life
What this book is about
Hollis Shaw is a food blogger and influencer whose husband has just died. On a whim, she invites her five closest female friends — one from each decade of her life — to her house on Nantucket for a long weekend. Each friend represents a different version of who she has been, and the five don't necessarily get along. Elin Hilderbrand's beach-read novel is about friendship, grief, reinvention, and the particular miracle of women who have known each other long enough to see through every pretense.
Notes for sensitive readers
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grief and loss of a spouse
adult romantic themes
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