![]() ![]() ![]() I feel like I’m living in one of Vivian Howe’s novels.” But, she adds, “They usually have happy endings. As an investigator tells the chief of police Ed Kapenash, who plays a recurring role in the Hilderbrand oeuvre: “This is all very life-imitating-art here, Chief. 'Summer of '69' by Elin Hilderbrand is a captivating novel that takes the reader back in time to the summer of 1969. The story is a family saga, a mystery and a moving retrospective that manages to be clever without being coy. The story is told through the eyes of fo. ![]() At the beginning of the book, a hit-and-run accident lands Vivi in the Beyond, where she is granted one summer to watch over her children, plus three “nudges” should she want to influence their decisions. Summer of '69 LibraryThing Series Summer of '69 Series author: Elin Hilderbrand 2 Works Popularity 10,471 (708 Members) 748 Books 38 Reviews 3. Like her creator, Vivi is a “wash-ashore” on Nantucket, a best-selling author of beach reads and a mother of three - and let’s hope the similarities end there. I have no patience for dead people who hang around in fiction, but I made an exception for Vivian Howe, who gets killed in the opening pages of Hilderbrand’s latest, most philosophical and (I’m declaring it) best novel, GOLDEN GIRL, which comes out on June 1. ![]()
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