Summer Darlings – Audiobook Online By: Brooke Lea Foster
“Inundated with 1960s nostalgia and a host of skillfully drawn characters” (Renée Rosen, author of Park Avenue Summer), Summer Lovers lifts the curtain about a family that is mysterious and rich through children.
The eyes of their nanny – a college student who,while in love with Martha’s Vineyard, is also forced to take into account the dark side of privilege.
In 1962, schoolgirl Heddy Winsome left behind the impoverished Irish neighborhood of Brooklyn and took a ferry to the glamorous Martha’s Vineyard to work as a nanny for one of the wealthiest families on the island. But as she falls in love with the charming and seemingly perfect young couple and chases after their two mischievous children, Heddy discovers that her scholarship to study at Wellesley has been revoked, making her entire future she is at risk.
Determined to find her place in the couple’s wealthy elite, Heddy fosters a romance with the stylish surfer at the beach while wondering if a better man is for her. be a quiet, studious male college student or not. But no one she meets on the summer island – society, star or housekeeper – is as perfect as their picture, and she quickly learns that they are right and a home in the zip code tony can guarantee. privilege, but that rarely happens. by happiness.
Hailed as “the perfect summer book with chic, sexy, mysterious people and a brave, smart young nanny” by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer, Summer Darlings promises to enter a rare world, for anyone who loves Tigers in Red Weather or The Summer Wives.
I was in my early twenties when this story unfolded and would love to go back in time with the author’s narrative. Real story, sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking. Heddy, the main character is so likable and compassionate, she would be my choice for a best friend and confidant of that era. I hope Miss Foster will continue Heddy’s story.
A young girl given a chance to see how well the supposedly better halves live, she discovers that’s just what she looks like when she works as a nanny for a wealthy family for a summer in the Garden. Martha’s grape. It’s moments like this when you think being stranded on an island for the summer is a terrible idea.
