The Lost Summers of Newport, Beatriz Williams
The Lost Summers of Newport, Beatriz Williams
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The Lost Summers of Newport
A Novel

Bestseller

Author: Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White

Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld, Brittany Pressley, Lisa Flanagan

Unabridged: 13 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 05/17/2022


Synopsis

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER""An engrossing and sumptuous tale, this novel is a fantastic spring read."" — Good Morning AmericaFrom the New York Times bestselling team of Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White—a novel of money and secrets set among the famous summer mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, spanning over a century from the Gilded Age to the present day.“Three stories elegantly intertwine in this clever and stylish tale of murder and family lies…This crackerjack novel offers three mysteries for the price of one.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer of Mansion Makeover, a popular reality show about restoring America’s most lavish historic houses. Andie has high hopes for her latest project: the once glorious but gently crumbling Sprague Hall in Newport, Rhode Island, summer resort of America’s gilded class—famous for the lavish “summer cottages” of Vanderbilts and Belmonts. But Andie runs into trouble: the reclusive heiress who still lives in the mansion, Lucia “Lucky” Sprague, will only allow the show to go forward on two conditions: One, nobody speaks to her. Two, nobody touches the mansion’s ruined boathouse.1899: Ellen Daniels has been hired to give singing lessons to Miss Maybelle Sprague, a naive young Colorado mining heiress whose stepbrother John has poured their new money into buying a place among Newport’s elite. John is determined to see Maybelle married off to a fortune-hunting Italian prince, and Ellen is supposed to polish up the girl for her launch into society. But the deceptively demure Ellen has her own checkered past, and she’s hiding in plain sight at Sprague Hall.1958: Lucia “Lucky” Sprague has always felt like an outsider at Sprague Hall. When she and her grandmother—the American-born Princess di Conti—fled Mussolini’s Italy, it seemed natural to go back to the imposing Newport house Nana owned but hadn’t seen since her marriage in 1899. Over the years, Lucky's lost her Italian accent and found a place for herself among the yachting set by marrying Stuyvesant Sprague, the alcoholic scion of her Sprague stepfamily. But one fateful night in the mansion’s old boathouse will uncover a devastating truth...and change everything she thought she knew about her past.As the cameras roll on Mansion Makeover, the house begins to yield up the dark secrets the Spragues thought would stay hidden forever….

About Beatriz Williams

Beatriz Williams is the bestselling author of over a dozen novels, including The Beach at Summerly, Our Woman in Moscow, and The Summer Wives, as well as four other novels cowritten with Lauren Willig and Karen White. A native of Seattle, she graduated from Stanford University and earned an MBA in finance from Columbia University. She lives with her husband and four children near the Connecticut shore, where she divides her time between writing and laundry.

About Lauren Willig

Lauren Willig is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. An alumna of Yale University, she has a graduate degree in history from Harvard and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She lives in New York City.

About Karen White

Karen White is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of twenty-five novels, including Dreams of Falling and The Night the Lights Went Out. She has two grown children and currently lives near Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband and two spoiled Havanese dogs.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mary Beth on May 23, 2022

3 Ivy League Graduates walk into a bar….. I hope this doesn’t start a trend. Three extremely well educated moms get together over Prosecco and try to write “historical” fiction. Is it a reflection of the wine, the Ivy League education, great connections, or all 3? It only took 1 person to write a Dan......more

Goodreads review by Renee on May 21, 2022

This triple timeline story recounting the melodrama in various generations of a Newport family has it all--grand houses, balls & parties at the club, jaded scions of society wreaking havoc, strong women holding their families together behind the scenes, struggles between the privileged classes & the......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews on June 26, 2022

Three women, three timelines, one house, family secrets that were to be hidden forever, and individual secrets. We meet Andie in 2019 who is doing a makeover show in only three permitted rooms at the Sprague Mansion. We meet Lucky in 1958 who still lives in the Sprague mansion. We meet Ellen the music......more

Goodreads review by Terri on May 26, 2022

Well, I’m afraid I fall into the minority of readers who find this book very disappointing. I wanted to love it … I really did. I love the concept of three strong women writers collaborating to create one novel. To my mind, however, the execution totally failed. I found the three timeline scheme incr......more

Goodreads review by erin (readingwithremy) on February 27, 2022

The 3Ws are my FAVORITE! Individually I absolutely love Beatriz Williams, Karen White and Lauren Willig and there co-written books are just as wonderful! This is the perfect summer book -- a historical fiction set in Newport in a Gilded Age mansions where we get romance and intrigue from the 3 time p......more