This sweeping love story is Hilderbrand's best ever - New York Times
Their secret love affair has lasted for decades - but will it last one more summer?
For the last twenty-eight summers Mallory and Jake have met to rekindle the passionate love affair they began all those years ago. Each married to someone else with busy lives and happy families they've managed to keep their secret and to keep their love alive.
But nothing is forever and when Mallory receives a diagnosis that puts her future in doubt they must face the possibility that their twenty-eighth summer together also be their last.
Further praise for 28 SUMMERS:
'This poignant novel's blend of nostalgia romance and escapism is so quintessentially summery you'll expect sand to spill from its pages' - Mail on Sunday
'Captivating and bittersweet' - People
'Elin Hilderbrand is the godmother of beach reads for a reason' - Good Housekeeping
'Hilderbrand sets the gold standard in escapist fiction' - Kirkus
'Less a story about a secretive affair and more a tale of sweet nostalgia and fate this title will be popular with a wide audience' - Library Journal
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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