
We could no sooner refrain from repeating what we'd heard than we could keep from rubbing our swollen, itchy eyes.

It ran like water in a newly thawed brook it circulated through the air like pollen. Gossip was always the most rampant in the spring. Eliot written? April is the cruellest month. Winter was bad, but spring was worse, because except for a few short weeks, it was indistinguishable from winter.

But sometimes, the island made us restless and irritable. Most of the time, living on Nantucket comforted us we felt like Mother Ocean was holding us in the palm of her hand. We didn't like to gossip we loved to gossip. But this summer, something's changed, and if there's anything Nantucket likes better than cocktails on the beach at sunset, it's a good rumor.Īnd rumor has it… that Madeline, a novelist, is battling writer's block, with a deadline looming, bills piling up, and blank pages driving her to desperation - and a desperately bad decision and that Grace, hard at work to transform her backyard into a garden paradise, has been collaborating a bit more closely than necessary with her ruggedly handsome landscape architect.Īs the gossip escalates, and they have the possible loss of the happy lives they've worked so hard to create, Grace and Madeline try mightily to set the record straight - but the truth might be even worse than rumor has it. Madeline King and Grace Pancik are best friends and the envy of Nantucket for their perfect marriages, their beautiful kids, their Saturday night double dates with their devoted husbands. A friendship is tested in this "thrilling" page-turner from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand ( Us Weekly).
