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BookTowne Welcomes Elin Hilderbrand, Author of The Five-Star Weekend
BookTowne Welcomes Elin Hilderbrand, Author of The Five-Star Weekend, for a signing event at The Parker House, Sea Girt.
When and where
Date and time
Thursday, June 15 · 5 - 8pm EDT
Location
The Parker House Beacon Boulevard Sea Girt, NJ 08750
Refund Policy
About this event
- 3 hours
- Mobile eTicket
About the Event:
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This event is extremely popular and will sell out. We ask that you be mindful of the weather and be prepared to be comfortable, HAVE FUN, and chat with other fans as you wait in line outside The Parker House. It can be a fairly long wait as Elin takes time to personalize, have photo op and briefly chat with each guest. We ask for your patience so that the evening runs as smoothly as possible.
About The Book:
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hotel Nantucket: After tragedy strikes, Hollis Shaw gathers four friends from different stages in her life to spend an unforgettable weekend on Nantucket, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hotel Nantucket.
Hollis Shaw’s life seems picture-perfect. She’s the creator of the popular food blog Hungry with Hollis and is married to Matthew, a dreamy heart surgeon. But after she and Matthew get into a heated argument one snowy morning, he leaves for the airport and is killed in a car accident. The cracks in Hollis’s perfect life—her strained marriage and her complicated relationship with her daughter, Caroline—grow deeper.
So when Hollis hears about something called a “Five-Star Weekend”—one woman organizes a trip for her best friend from each phase of her life: her teenage years, her twenties, her thirties, and midlife—she decides to host her own Five-Star Weekend on Nantucket. But the weekend doesn’t turn out to be a joyful Hallmark movie.
The husband of Hollis’s childhood friend Tatum arranges for Hollis’s first love, Jack Finigan, to spend time with them, stirring up old feelings. Meanwhile, Tatum is forced to play nice with abrasive and elitist Dru-Ann, Hollis’s best friend from UNC Chapel Hill. Dru-Ann’s career as a prominent Chicago sports agent is on the line after her comments about a client’s mental health issues are misconstrued online. Brooke, Hollis’s friend from their thirties, has just discovered that her husband is having an inappropriate relationship with a woman at work. Again! And then there’s Gigi, a stranger to everyone (including Hollis) who reached out to Hollis through her blog. Gigi embodies an unusual grace and, as it happens, has many secrets.
The Five-Star Weekend is a surprising and captivating story about friendship, love, and self-discovery set on Nantucket. It will be a weekend like no other.
About The Author:
Elin Hilderbrand lives on Nantucket year-round where she enjoys going to the beach, cooking for her young adult children and occasionally dancing front-row at the Chicken Box. She is a grateful nine-year breast cancer survivor. The Five-Star Weekend is her twenty-ninth novel.