03769cam a2200457 i 4500 1262021670 TxAuBib 181101s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018297405 9780062660343 hardcover 0062660349 hardcover (OCoLC)1035847074 WIVLS eng WIVLS rda HQD ZVR DYJ FLWMD EYB OI6 FMB TS4 ILC OCLCO VP@ IGA IMT OCLCO ZHB XZ9 T2D NDS T3S VLR RS$ TME INR TXSCH DLC TxAuBib rda Williams, Beatriz, author. The summer wives / Beatriz Williams. First edition. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] ©2018. 367 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent h rdamedia nc rdacarrier In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society, still reeling from the loss of her father in the Second World War. When her beautiful mother marries Hugh Fisher, whose summer house on Winthrop overlooks the famous lighthouse, Miranda is catapulted into a heady new world of pedigrees and cocktails, status and swimming pools. Isobel Fisher, Miranda's new stepsister -- all long legs and world-weary bravado, engaged to a wealthy Island scion -- is eager to draw Miranda into the arcane customs of Winthrop society. But beneath the island's patrician surface, there are really two clans: the summer families with their steadfast ways and quiet obsessions, and the working class of Portuguese fishermen and domestic workers who earn their living on the water and in the laundries of the summer houses. Uneasy among Isobel's privileged friends, Miranda finds herself drawn to Joseph Vargas, whose father keeps the lighthouse with his mysterious wife. In summer, Joseph helps his father in the lobster boats, but in the autumn he returns to Brown University, where he's determined to make something of himself. Since childhood, Joseph has enjoyed an intense, complex friendship with Isobel Fisher, and as the summer winds to its end, Miranda is caught in a catastrophe that will shatter Winthrop's hard-won tranquility and banish Miranda from the island for nearly two decades. Now, in the landmark summer of 1969, Miranda returns at last, as a renowned Shakespearean actress hiding a terrible heartbreak. On its surface, the Island remains the same -- determined to keep the outside world from its shores, fiercely loyal to those who belong. But the formerly powerful Fisher family is a shadow of itself, and Joseph Vargas has recently escaped the prison where he was incarcerated for the murder of Miranda's stepfather eighteen years earlier. Miranda herself is no longer a nav̐e teenager, and she begins a fierce, inexorable quest for justice for the man she once loved ... even if it means uncovering every last one of the secrets that bind together the families of Winthrop Island. Family secrets Fiction. Fugitives from justice Fiction. Islands New England Fiction. Lighthouses New England Fiction. Murder Fiction. Social classes United States Fiction. Social conflict Fiction. Stepfamilies Fiction. Vacation homes New England Fiction. FICTION / Family Life. FICTION / Historical. FICTION / Romance. Fiction. New England. Historical fiction. Love stories. Romance fiction.