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The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand

Contemporary fiction

The Hotel Nantucket

by Elin Hilderbrand

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In this new charmer from the modern master of beach reads, a plucky manager tries to teach an old hotel new tricks.

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Synopsis

After a tragic fire in 1922 that killed 19-year-old chambermaid, Grace Hadley, The Hotel Nantucket descended from a gilded age gem to a mediocre budget-friendly lodge to inevitably an abandoned eyesore—until it’s purchased and renovated top to bottom by London billionaire, Xavier Darling.

Xavier hires Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton as his general manager, and Lizbet, in turn, pulls together a charismatic, if inexperienced, staff who share the vision of turning the fate of the hotel around. They face challenges in getting along with one another (and with the guests), in overcoming the hotel’s bad reputation, and in surviving the (mostly) harmless shenanigans of Grace Hadley herself—who won’t stop haunting the hotel until her murder is acknowledged.

Why I love it

The days are getting warmer, the sun is shining longer, and the ice cream trucks have begun to make their rounds. But really, nothing says “summer is just around the corner” more than the release of a new Elin Hilderbrand novel. So cue up your beach party playlist and get ready for another warm-hearted, witty romp from Nantucket’s prolific novelist.

When a British billionaire buys the run-down Hotel Nantucket, hoping to transform it into a vacationer’s paradise, he has his eyes set on one prize: receiving a “five-key review” from a notoriously critical hotel reviewer. And he knows the surest way to accomplish this is to hire the smart and savvy Lizbet Keaton as general manager. There are just a few problems: Lizbet’s staff of quirky characters are far from experienced; the hotel’s years of dilapidation have earned it a pretty bad reputation; and, well, the hotel has a bit of a pesky ghost-with-a-grudge problem. Can Lizbet still pull it off?

The Hotel Nantucket boasts the ingredients of a great summer read: an amusing cast of characters, a lively setting, all the best interpersonal drama, and a little bit of flirtation to boot. And with an extra dose of supernatural antics, this novel will deliver for anyone looking for a satisfying page-turner to kick off the season.

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The Last Love Note
Anita de Monte Laughs Last
The Wedding People
The Leftover Woman
The Same Bright Stars
Interesting Facts about Space
The Villain Edit
Bye, Baby
Swan Song
The Days I Loved You Most
How to Read a Book
The Connellys of County Down
Joe Nuthin’s Guide to Life
A Summer Affair
Adelaide
The Collected Regrets of Clover
Evil Eye
Maame
Advika and the Hollywood Wives
Once There Were Wolves
We Are the Brennans
Olga Dies Dreaming
If Only I Could Tell You
How Lucky
My Dark Vanessa
Nine Perfect Strangers
Honey Girl
One Italian Summer
Eight Hundred Grapes
The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes
The Five-Star Weekend
The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
The Nest
Rich and Pretty
Britt-Marie Was Here
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
Startup
The Identicals
The Dinner List
Goodbye, Paris
Winter in Paradise
A Woman Is No Man
Queenie
Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Beyond the Point
What Happens in Paradise
Nothing to See Here
When We Were Vikings
Anxious People
A Good Neighborhood
Big Summer
The Last Story of Mina Lee
Troubles in Paradise
White Ivy
This Close to Okay
The Removed
The Kindest Lie
Good Company
Impostor Syndrome
The Other Black Girl
Apples Never Fall
A Quiet Life
We Are the Light
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