Welcome to The Love Season--a riveting story that takes place in one
day and spans decades; a story that embraces the charming, pristine
island of Nantucket, as well as Manhattan, Paris and Morocco. Elin
Hilderbrand's most ambitious novel to date chronicles the famous
couplings of real lives: love and friendship, food and wine, deception
and betrayal--and forgiveness and healing.
It's a hot August Saturday on Nantucket Island. Over the course of the
next 24 hours, two lives will be transformed forever.
Marguerite Beale, former chef of culinary hot spot Les Parapluies, has
been out of the public eye for over a decade. This all changes with a
phone call from Marguerite's goddaughter, Renata Knox.
Marguerite has not seen Renata since the death of Renata's mother,
Candace Harris Knox, fourteen years earlier. And now that Renata is on
Nantucket visiting the family of her new fiancé, she takes the
opportunity, against her father's wishes, to contact Marguerite in hopes
of learning the story of her mother's life--and death.
But the events of the day spiral hopelessly out of control for both
women, and nothing ends up as planned.