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Elin Hilderbrand's latest novel, The Island
, tells the story of four women living on Tuckernuck Island, where Birdie calls her daughter, Chess, to spend a week in the old family vacation home to celebrate the latters engagement. Later Chess dissolves the engagement and shortly afterwards her ex fiancee dies in a climbing accident. Time passes and Birdie invites her sister India, and her other daughter Tate, to try and help Chess find her way out of the deep depression she has fallen in. They plan for a quiet, nurturing month caring for Chess, but the island has its own ideas. The reality will turn out to be far more exciting and healing than any of them expect. The island is a novel with impressive depth and detail with all the mess and complication of real life. The characters are interesting, however it's a little funny how everyone in it is exceptionally good looking. No uglies or even moderately attractive people here! I enjoyed every minute of getting to know them. If the end is a bit of a fairy tale, all neatly tied up and happy, I liked the book even better for it. A thoroughly enjoyable read !:)
is a novel with impressive depth and detail with all the mess and complication of real life. The characters are interesting, however it's a little funny how everyone in it is exceptionally good looking. No uglies or even moderately attractive people here! I enjoyed every minute of getting to know them. If the end is a bit of a fairy tale, all neatly tied up and happy, I liked the book even better for it. A thoroughly enjoyable read !:)(Other books by the same author I found to be worthwhile reads - Summer People
, The Blue Bistro
, The Castaways,
The Love Season
.)
, The Blue Bistro, The Castaways, The Love Season.)
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