The Beach Club, Elin Hilderbrand
The Beach Club, Elin Hilderbrand
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The Beach Club
A Novel

Author: Elin Hilderbrand

Narrator: Christina Delaine

Unabridged: 14 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/19/2013

Synopsis

In The Beach Club, the juicy first novel by Elin Hilderbrand, a series of personal dramas are played out during one summer at a Nantucket Beach Club. It's about the love of summer, summer love, and the special feelings we all have for that special summer place--in this case, a hotel and an island.

Mack Petersen, manager of the hotel, has been working at The Beach Club for 12 summers. Only this summer is different. His boss, the owner of the hotel, Bill Elliot, shows up in the spring with a new set of demands. His girlfriend Maribel is pressing Mack to get married and Vance, the African-American bellman, who has hated Mack since the day Mack stole his job 12 years ago, threatens him in a deadly scene. Mack knows something's got to give.

Love O'Donnell, the new front desk person straight from the slopes of Aspen, is desperately searching for a stranger to father her child. The bellman, Jem Crandall, who posed as Mr. November in his college calendar, is on his way to LA to break into agenting, until he falls in love with Maribel. Emotions are at a peak when a hurricane threatens to wash away The Beach Club and all it stands for.

An engrossing, sexy novel that will sweep you away to the beach any time of the year.

About Elin Hilderbrand

Elin Hilderbrand was born and raised in Collegeville, PA, but spent most of her childhood summers playing on Cape Cod. Her father died in a plane crash when she was sixteen years old, so unfortunately that ended the Cape trips. Her summers were now spent working, but she promised herself that for the rest of her life she would always have a real summer. She moved to Nantucket in July 1993, took a job as "the classified ads girl" at a local paper, and later started writing. Elin says she does her best writing while on the beaches of Nantucket or along the beautiful streets of Beacon Hill in Boston. She is a breast cancer survivor and currently lives in Nantucket along with her three beautiful children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrea

Overall enjoyable, but not as good as her more recent books. My complaints about the book are: 1) It didn't make sense for Vance to pull a gun on his boss. It was also an unnecessary plot twist. The description on the back of the book says, "Vance has his African-American pride," but it is not a good......more

Goodreads review by Brooke

This was an interesting book.......I really enjoyed it, but struggled. I think I am spoiled because the first book by Elin Hilderbrand that I read was The Blue Bistro, and I was completely captivated by it. So The Beach Club was sort of a struggle for me. Too many characters, not enough H.E.A. for m......more

Goodreads review by Shelly

I gave this book two stars. I wasn't able to finish it (and I usually don't rate books I DNF)but this was a DNF for the worst reason so I HAD to write a review. (Spoilers ahead.) I read The Blue Bistro by Hilderbrand and really liked it so wanted to follow it up with The Beach Club, the precursor. I......more

Goodreads review by Katie (never.ending.reading.list)

Oh boy, this was a rough one for me. So I read The Perfect Couple this summer and I absolutely loved it! The writing, the characters, the plot, the setting, it was all so great. Once I found how obsessed people are with Elin Hilderbrand I had to get some of her other ones and I have to say this was......more

Quotes

“A steamy tale.” —The Boston Herald

“A strong, emotional pull...readers will remain absorbed until the surprising denouement.” —Publishers Weekly

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