Rating: Good
Summer House is the perfect beach read. A wealthy family with a summer house on Nantucket Island with as many secrets, affairs, and family jealousies to keep you turning the page. The Wheelwright family meet at the house every summer for the family meeting hosted by the 90 year old patriarch, Nona. The women stay on the island and the "bank men" jet back and forth from Boston on the weekends. Helen and Worth are a 60 something couple with three children, a daughter Charlotte that lives on the island full time and runs an organic garden and vegetable stand, a son who lives in San Francisco and comes to the island for the family meeting and his wedding to his partner, and Teddy who is a recovering alcoholic that brings his pregnant girlfriend to the house to stay for the summer. Helen finds out that Worth is having an affair, Nona reveals a secrete that she has been hiding for 60 years in hopes to save Helen and Worth's marriage. Charlotte who seems to be the most sane out of the bunch is laden with guilt over something she did to Me, a cousin that is also at the house. Yes a soap opera, but isn't that what a "beach read" is suppose to be?
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