There was never any way to predict who would be our subject. We gossiped at the dentist, in the salon, in the produce section of the Stop & Shop, around the bar at the Boarding House we gossiped over appetizers at the Anglers' Club on Friday nights, between the pews of five o'clock Mass on Saturday nights, and in line at the Hub as we waited to buy our New York Times on Sunday mornings.

We were aware of things happening in the wider world-human genomes being decoded on the MIT campus, tectonic plates shifting in California, Putin waging war in Ukraine-but none of these events captured our interest like those taking place on the 105 square miles of our home island.

We weren't mean spirited or vindictive or cruel we were simply bored, and after the long stretch without summer visitors, summer money, summer magic, our reservoirs were dry.īesides which, we were human beings, saddled with our own curiosities and our own insecurities. We could no sooner refrain from repeating what we'd heard than we could keep from rubbing our swollen, itchy eyes. It ran like water in a newly thawed brook it circulated through the air like pollen. Gossip was always the most rampant in the spring.

Eliot written? April is the cruellest month. Winter was bad, but spring was worse, because except for a few short weeks, it was indistinguishable from winter. But sometimes, the island made us restless and irritable. Most of the time, living on Nantucket comforted us we felt like Mother Ocean was holding us in the palm of her hand.

We didn't like to gossip we loved to gossip. But this summer, something's changed, and if there's anything Nantucket likes better than cocktails on the beach at sunset, it's a good rumor.Īnd rumor has it… that Madeline, a novelist, is battling writer's block, with a deadline looming, bills piling up, and blank pages driving her to desperation - and a desperately bad decision and that Grace, hard at work to transform her backyard into a garden paradise, has been collaborating a bit more closely than necessary with her ruggedly handsome landscape architect.Īs the gossip escalates, and they have the possible loss of the happy lives they've worked so hard to create, Grace and Madeline try mightily to set the record straight - but the truth might be even worse than rumor has it. Madeline King and Grace Pancik are best friends and the envy of Nantucket for their perfect marriages, their beautiful kids, their Saturday night double dates with their devoted husbands. A friendship is tested in this 'thrilling' page-turner from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand ( Us Weekly).

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