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The Rumor

by Elin Hilderbrand

Friendship under Nantucket’s watchful eye

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Friendship under Nantucket’s watchful eye

On Nantucket, Madeline King and Grace Pancik seem to have built enviable lives around close friendship, family, and shared evenings with their husbands. This summer, however, rumors about each woman’s private troubles begin to circulate: Madeline faces writer’s block, a looming deadline, and mounting bills, while Grace’s work with her landscape architect attracts gossip of its own. As the talk spreads, the novel sets the friends’ polished public image against the pressures they are trying to manage. Their efforts to correct the stories raise a question at the heart of the setup: what happens when the truth is less reassuring than the rumor?

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in stories about friendship tested by private pressures and public gossip.
  • Readers who enjoy contemporary fiction set in Nantucket and centered on family and social relationships.

Themes

FriendshipRumor and reputationMarriage and familyCreative and financial pressurePublic image and private life

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Book overview

A friendship is tested in this page-turner from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand.

"thrilling" --Us Weekly

Madeline King and Grace Pancik are best friends and the envy of Nantucket for their perfect marriages, their beautiful kids, their Saturday night double dates with their devoted husbands. But this summer, something's changed, and if there's anything Nantucket likes better than cocktails on the beach at sunset, it's a good rumor.

And rumor has it... that Madeline, a novelist, is battling writer's block, with a deadline looming, bills piling up, and blank pages driving her to desperation -- and a desperately bad decision; and that Grace, hard at work to transform her backyard into a garden paradise, has been collaborating a bit more closely than necessary with her ruggedly handsome landscape architect.

As the gossip escalates, and they have the possible loss of the happy lives they've worked so hard to create, Grace and Madeline try mightily to set the record straight -- but the truth might be even worse than rumor has it.
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