Even though Lily and Nick are not related by blood, Kiki still insisted that her brother (yes, unbeknownst to Kiki, but still…) and sister get married and live happily ever after.īudgie and Graham. Yep, Kiki is the half-sister to both Lily and Nick. I knew from the point that Lily told someone that Kiki was her sister, that she was in the delivery room with her mother when Kiki was born, that Kiki was actually the product of an affair between Lily’s mother and Nick’s father (a revelation that actually took Lily most of the novel to figure out). Everyone thinks Kiki is Lily and Nick’s secret love child from their affair in 1931, but, of course, she is not. Kiki is a tired cliché: a cute, precocious, six-year-old who desperately wants Lily and Nick to get back together. As a fluff-tastic beach read, I suppose this novel is fine, but there were some problems I had with the characters and plot.
It started off fine, alternating chapters between “the present” (1938) and “the past” (1931), telling the story of Lily Dane and Nick Greenwald’s ill-fated love affair in 1931 and Lily’s present day (1938) heartache when she learns that Nick and his wife, Lily’s former childhood best friend Budgie, are summering in the same resort town as Lily.
Well, this is another book that I wanted to like and it just did not work for me. Under the scorching summer sun, the unexpected truth of Budgie and Nick’s marriage bubbles to the surface, and as a cataclysmic hurricane barrels unseen up the Atlantic and into New England, Lily and Nick must confront an emotional cyclone of their own, which will change their worlds forever. But the ties that bind Lily to Nick are too strong and intricate to ignore, and the two are drawn back into long-buried dreams, despite their uneasy secrets and many emotional obligations. Budgie’s arrival to restore her family’s old house puts her once more in the center of the community’s social scene, and she insinuates herself back into Lily's friendship with an overpowering talent for seduction.and an alluring acquaintance from their college days, Yankees pitcher Graham Pendleton. Nick and Budgie Greenwald are an unwelcome specter from Lily’s past: her former best friend and her former fiancé, now recently married-an event that set off a wildfire of gossip among the elite of Seaview, who have summered together for generations. That is, until the Greenwalds decide to take up residence in Seaview. Memorial Day, 1938: New York socialite Lily Dane has just returned with her family to the idyllic oceanfront community of Seaview, Rhode Island, expecting another placid summer season among the familiar traditions and friendships that sustained her after heartbreak.
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