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The Lost Summers of Newport: A Novel by Lauren Willig
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…. Read more
Sydney M. Williams The Lost Summers of Newport Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White June 4, 2022 “Like Sprague Hall itself, you never knew what kind of rot lay behind the façade.” The Lost Summers of Newport Like a Nova, Newport, with its enormous, newly-built mansions, exploded onto the social scene during the late 19th Century; then that Gilded Age faded away in a matter of two or three generations. This is the fourth novel written by three friends who, independently, are all New York Times best-selling authors. (A caveat – Beatriz is married to my oldest son.) As in their previous novels, this story unfolds over three time periods, in this case at Sprague Hall – 1899, 1957 and 2019 – on Newport’s Bellevue Avenue. While one of Newport’s “mansions,” Sprague Hall is not as imposing as its neighbors: It is “…tucked between Marble House and Rosecliff…a less significant house perched near a small curve of coast with the improbable name of Sheep Point Cove.” This story of Newport’s extravagances and secrets is told through the voices of three young women, representing the three time periods: 1899 – Ellen (“…hoping the tremble in her voice would be taken for awe, and not fear.”) has been hired to give singing lessons to Maybelle Sprague. 1957 – Lucky (“Teddy was the only person in Newport who knew what Lucky really thought of Minty Appleton.”) is the Italian-born granddaughter of the American-born Princess di Conti. 2019 – Andie (“…it was clear I had traveled more than just the thirty-three miles separating my hometown of Cranston, Rhode Island from the coastal resort of Newport.”) is a young, producer on Makeover Mansions, a reality TV show about restoring some of America’s most lavish houses. While chronology is important and the reader must keep track of multiple characters and generations, it is through Andie – her persistence with the remaining members of the Sprague family – that the mysteries of the house and its occupants (past and present) are unraveled. With chapters alternating between the three time periods, we begin to understand the family tensions and sense the secrets that underlie them. The stories of the three women blend as the reader proceeds, at an ever-quickening pace. Like the orchestral piece, Maurice Ravel’s Boléro, the novel builds toward a crescendo. This reader found his pulse quickening and his eyes moving ever faster down the page, as the story reached its climax, which was both surprising and satisfying. The second season of Julian Fellowes’ The Gilded Age has been filming in Newport, making The Lost Summers of Newport timely. Incidentally, this novel will show up as number 15 on the June 5th (tomorrow) New York Times best-selling list, possibly the first time that a novel authored by three women has made that list.
ASIN -> B09JGHF558 Publisher -> William Morrow (May 17, 2022) Publication date -> May 17, 2022 Language -> English File size -> 5327 KB Text-to-Speech -> Enabled Screen Reader -> Supported Enhanced typesetting -> Enabled
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