The Summer Wivesis an exquisitely rendered novel that tackles two of my favorite topics: love and money. The glorious setting and drama are enriched by Williamss signature vintage touch. Its at the top of my picks for the beach this summer.

Elin Hilderbrand, author ofThe Perfect Couple

New York Timesbestselling author Beatriz Williams brings us the blockbuster novel of the seasonan electrifying postwar fable of love, class, power, and redemption set among the inhabitants of anisland off the New England coast . . .

In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society, still reeling from the loss of her father in the Second World War. When her beautiful mother marries Hugh Fisher, whose summer house on Winthrop overlooks the famous lighthouse, Mirandas ca