The Best Summer of Our Lives, Rachel Hauck
The Best Summer of Our Lives, Rachel Hauck
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The Best Summer of Our Lives

Author: Rachel Hauck

Narrator: Suzy Jackson

Unabridged: 11 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/27/2023


Synopsis

Twenty years ago, the summer of ’77 was supposed to be the best summer of Summer Wilde’s life. She and her best friends, Spring, Autumn, and Snow—the Four Seasons—had big plans.

But those plans never had a chance. After a teenage prank gone awry, the Seasons found themselves on a bus to Tumbleweed, “Nowhere,” Oklahoma, to spend eight weeks as camp counselors. All four of them arrived with hidden secrets and buried fears, and the events that unfolded in those two months forever altered their friendships, their lives, and their futures.

Now, thirtysomething Summer is at a crossroads. When her latest girl band leaves her in a motel outside Tulsa, she is forced to face the shadows of her past.

Returning to the place where everything changed, she soon learns Tumbleweed is more than a town she never wanted to see again. It’s a place for healing, for reconciling the past with the present, and for finally listening to love’s voice.

About Rachel Hauck

Rachel Hauck is a New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author.

She is a Christy Award winner and a double RITA finalist. Her book The Wedding Dress was named Inspirational Novel of the Year by Romantic Times Book Club. She is also the recipient of Romantic Times magazine's Career Achievement Award.

A graduate of Ohio State University with a degree in journalism, and a former sorority girl, Rachel and her husband live in central Florida. She is a huge Buckeyes football fan.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Oceana

The Best Summer of Our Lives by Rachel Hauck is a Christian contemporary dual-timeline story following the lives of 4 best friends during the summer before they go off to college. Summer, Spring, Autumn, and Snow - known as the 'Seasons' - are best friends who get in trouble for a prank that sends t......more

I am so glad I read this book! The Best Summer of Our Lives by Rachel Hauck is a raw, beautiful, coming-of-age Christian contemporary story. The story is dual-timeline, taking place primarily in 1977, with glimpses of 1997. 20 years. 4 best friends. Many secrets. Encounters with Jesus. I really enjo......more

Goodreads review by Lauren

I just really didn’t like this book and I wish I would have DNFed way sooner. Its probably a case of it’s me not the book, but man it was a slog to finish this. I didn’t love the way so much of the drama was handled, and how shallow the characters seemed. The dialogue was really immature in past and......more

This was far more than just a camp story about friendship. Secrets will be exposed, hearts broken, fear encountered and finding faith. Four friends find themselves having to work as camp counselors, after a school prank went wrong. The four seasons Snow, Autumn, Summer and Spring thought that this wo......more

ugh 😑 I had high hopes because I’m a fan of Hauck. I have one word for this book. Weird. Plain weird. Unsettling is another good one. I did finish it because it was one of those books that you really don’t like but want to at least see how it ends. Hence my ugh…”the preacher” is a bit much. Emotiona......more