• Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2020 April #2
  In 2020, Mallory Blessing is dying, and she asks her son to call Jake McCloud, husband of Ursula DeGournsey, who may well become the next president of the United States. Flashback to 1993, when Mallory inherits a Nantucket beach house, and Jake attends her brother 's bachelor party. Jake and Mallory have a weekend fling that ends with them watching the movie, Same Time, Next Year. They decide to recreate the story: every Labor Day weekend, Jake will come to Nantucket, no matter what. So begins a long-term secret affair that continues "through the good, the bad, and the ugly." The novel's chapters cover each year, and each begins with a reminder of the hot topics of the time. Readers follow these characters not only while they are together, but also during their larger lives, including their jobs, friendships, marriages, children, and politics. This propulsive, if a tad long-winded, love story is filled with empathetically portrayed flawed characters. Prolific Hilderbrand (What Happens in Paradise, 2019) has crafted another endearing work of women's fiction sure to be a summer hit. Copyright 2020 Booklist Reviews.

Elin Hilderbrand spent her first summer on Nantucket Island in 1993 and has lived there year-round for twenty-six years. She's the mother of three, an enthusiastic at-home cook, and a six-year breast cancer survivor. 28Summers is her twenty-fifth novel.