They hadn't known then what was coming. They didn't know about September 11th they didn't know about miscarriages and love affairs they didn't know about a girl named April Peck. They didn't know they were going to die. Back then they had been happy.'
From the outside the close-knit circle of friends calling themselves 'the Castaways' share an idyllic lifestyle on the charming island of Nantucket blessed with money children beauty and love.
But when Tess and Greg are killed in a tragic boating accident orphaning their seven-year-old twins it sends devastating shockwaves through the rest of the group.
As the friends grieve the truth behind their relationships gradually begins to emerge in a chain of staggering revelations. And for the first time they are forced to ask the hardest of questions.
Can you live without the person who made you whole?
And how do you mourn for a secret lover and a relationship nobody knew existed?
An utterly absorbing novel exploring the tangle of secrets and lies that can lurk beneath even the closest of relationships . . .
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Elin Hilderbrand is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. The Academy is her thirty-first novel, and the first co-written with her daughter, Shelby Cunningham. Hilderbrand is the co-host of the podcast "Books, Beach and Beyond" along with @TimTalksBooks creator, Tim Ehrenberg. She is raising four young adult children and likes to spend her free time at the beach and on her Peloton. She's a grateful ten-year breast cancer survivor.
Shelby Cunningham was born and raised on Nantucket Island. She's a 2024 graduate of St. George's School in Middletown, Rhode Island.
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