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    The Lost Summers of Newport: A Novel
    The Lost Summers of Newport: A Novel
    The Lost Summers of Newport: A Novel
    Audiobook13 hours

    The Lost Summers of Newport: A Novel

    Written by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig and Karen White

    Narrated by Saskia Maarleveld, Brittany Pressley and Lisa Flanagan

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    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    ""An engrossing and sumptuous tale, this novel is a fantastic spring read."" — Good Morning America

    From the New York Times bestselling team of Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White—a novel of money and secrets set among the famous summer mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, spanning over a century from the Gilded Age to the present day.

    “Three stories elegantly intertwine in this clever and stylish tale of murder and family lies…This crackerjack novel offers three mysteries for the price of one.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

    2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer of Mansion Makeover, a popular reality show about restoring America’s most lavish historic houses. Andie has high hopes for her latest project: the once glorious but gently crumbling Sprague Hall in Newport, Rhode Island, summer resort of America’s gilded class—famous for the lavish “summer cottages” of Vanderbilts and Belmonts. But Andie runs into trouble: the reclusive heiress who still lives in the mansion, Lucia “Lucky” Sprague, will only allow the show to go forward on two conditions: One, nobody speaks to her. Two, nobody touches the mansion’s ruined boathouse.

    1899: Ellen Daniels has been hired to give singing lessons to Miss Maybelle Sprague, a naive young Colorado mining heiress whose stepbrother John has poured their new money into buying a place among Newport’s elite. John is determined to see Maybelle married off to a fortune-hunting Italian prince, and Ellen is supposed to polish up the girl for her launch into society. But the deceptively demure Ellen has her own checkered past, and she’s hiding in plain sight at Sprague Hall.

    1958: Lucia “Lucky” Sprague has always felt like an outsider at Sprague Hall. When she and her grandmother—the American-born Princess di Conti—fled Mussolini’s Italy, it seemed natural to go back to the imposing Newport house Nana owned but hadn’t seen since her marriage in 1899. Over the years, Lucky's lost her Italian accent and found a place for herself among the yachting set by marrying Stuyvesant Sprague, the alcoholic scion of her Sprague stepfamily. But one fateful night in the mansion’s old boathouse will uncover a devastating truth...and change everything she thought she knew about her past.

    As the cameras roll on Mansion Makeover, the house begins to yield up the dark secrets the Spragues thought would stay hidden forever….

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateMay 17, 2022
    ISBN9780063040779
    Author

    Beatriz Williams

    A graduate of Stanford University with an MBA from Columbia, Beatriz Williams spent several years in New York and London hiding her early attempts at fiction, first on company laptops as a communications strategy consultant, and then as an at-home producer of small persons, before her career as a writer took off. She lives with her husband and four children near the Connecticut shore.

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    • 4/5
      This was enjoyable—I always like a multi-generational saga. But of all the Beatriz Williams books I’ve consumed, it was probably my least favorite. The writing just didn’t feel as graceful as I’m used to from her. That being said, I still give it four stars.
    • 5/5
      Historical novel of manners, and mystery. Fun listen, period romances.
    • 5/5
      This is the second book I have read by this trio of authors. It loved both of them, and will definitely be checking for more.
    • 5/5
      enjoyed this book so much! i loved the 3 different stories in one and how they all connected, very creative. definitely a fun read!
    • 5/5
      Gripping. I could hardly wait for the next chapter. Excellent
    • 2/5
      I’ve enjoyed other Beatriz Williams books, although I consider them to be light reading and “palate cleansers” for when I’ve been reading more complex books for too long. Still, I expected this book to be a little more intelligent. Too much “girl swooning for the sexy guy with his shirt off” stuff. I’ve never had much of a taste for that, and I think maybe this book killed that off entirely.

      As I always say, life is too short to waste your time on books that don’t make you think.