About the Book:
Montauk, Long Island, 1938.
For three months, this humble fishing village will serve as the playground for New York City’s wealthy elite. Beatrice Bordeaux was looking forward to a summer of reigniting the passion between her and her husband, Harry. Instead, tasked with furthering his investment interest in Montauk as a resort destination, she learns she’ll be spending twelve weeks sequestered with the high society wives at The Montauk Manor—a two-hundred room seaside hotel—while Harry pursues other interests in the city.
College educated, but raised a modest country girl in Pennsylvania, Bea has never felt fully comfortable among these privileged women, whose days are devoted not to their children but to leisure activities and charities that seemingly benefit no one but themselves. She longs to be a mother herself, as well as a loving wife, but after five years of marriage she remains childless while Harry is increasingly remote and distracted. Despite lavish parties at the Manor and the Yacht Club, Bea is lost and lonely and befriends the manor’s laundress whose work ethic and family life stir memories of who she once was.
As she drifts further from the society women and their preoccupations and closer toward Montauk’s natural beauty and community spirit, Bea finds herself drawn to a man nothing like her husband –stoic, plain spoken and enigmatic. Inspiring a strength and courage she had almost forgotten, his presence forces her to face a haunting tragedy of her past and question her future.
Desperate to embrace moments of happiness, no matter how fleeting, she soon discovers that such moments may be all she has, when fates conspire to tear her world apart…
About the Author:
Born in England, Nicola Harrison moved to CA where
she received a BA in Literature at UCLA before moving to NYC and earning an MFA
in creative writing at Stony Brook. She is a member of The Writers Room, has
short stories published in The Southampton Review and Glimmer Train and
articles in Los Angeles Magazine and Orange Coast Magazine. She
was the fashion and style staff writer for Forbes, had a weekly column
at Lucky Magazine and is the founder of a personal styling business,
Harrison Style. Montauk is Harrison's debut novel.
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MY REVIEW:
Montauk by Nicola HarrisonHave visited the area in the 80's to see a Lyme disease doctor so didn't spend a lot of time there but holds special memories for us.
Book starts out with driving the roads along the water edge, many of the cottages are magnificent.
The couple has had other friends who've stayed in the area in the summer and the inn has lots of events planned.
Beatrice and Harry had planned this trip for a while. He is a Bordeaux and he has to provide for her. He will work and live in the city and come down on weekends to spend with her.
Sounds like a fun outdoorsy place, just what we'd be looking for...they are bypassing Providence and Newport-places we live very close to to stay at Montauk.
Beatrice is left behind as her spouse heads back to the city-he doesn't come back every weekend. She takes excursion with Dolly to her hat shop in the city and she knows when she walks into her apartment what's happened there...
Over time she devotes her life to the true islanders and finds a special friend. Towards the end of the summer season she's notified she's pregnant...Harry thinks it's his...
Knowing the date I had not expected what happens next but won't spoil it for others-we also experienced it in RI-up the coast from this location-out of the blue, so devastating.
She has plans for her life but this event may have changed her mind. Lot of characters but easy to keep track of them all and there's a lot of drama from all angles.
Love the parts where she's able to help the islanders and charity work. Love how she stands up to Harry...
Enjoyed the read and especially the location and hearing of the locals and their life.
Received this review copy from a publicist via St. Martin's Press from NetGalley and this is my honest opinion.
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