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The Lost Summers of Newport: A Novel

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

An engrossing and sumptuous tale, this novel is a fantastic spring read. Good Morning America

From the New York Times bestselling team of Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen Whitea novel of money and secrets set among the famous summer mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, spanning over a century from the Gilded Age to the present day.

Three stories elegantly intertwine in this clever and stylish tale of murder and family liesThis crackerjack novel offers three mysteries for the price of one. Publishers Weekly (starred review)

2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer of Mansion Makeover, a popular reality show about restoring Americas most lavish historic houses. Andie has high hopes for her latest project: the once glorious but gently crumbling Sprague Hall in Newport, Rhode Island, summer resort of Americas gilded classfamous for the lavish summer cottages of Vanderbilts and Belmonts. But Andie runs into trouble: the reclusive heiress who still lives in the mansion, Lucia Lucky Sprague, will only allow the show to go forward on two conditions: One, nobody speaks to her. Two, nobody touches the mansions ruined boathouse.

1899: Ellen Daniels has been hired to give singing lessons to Miss Maybelle Sprague, a naive young Colorado mining heiress whose stepbrother John has poured their new money into buying a place among Newports elite. John is determined to see Maybelle married off to a fortune-hunting Italian prince, and Ellen is supposed to polish up the girl for her launch into society. But the deceptively demure Ellen has her own checkered past, and shes hiding in plain sight at Sprague Hall.

1958: Lucia Lucky Sprague has always felt like an outsider at Sprague Hall. When she and her grandmotherthe American-born Princess di Contifled Mussolinis Italy, it seemed natural to go back to the imposing Newport house Nana owned but hadnt seen since her marriage in 1899. Over the years, Lucky's lost her Italian accent and found a place for herself among the yachting set by marrying Stuyvesant Sprague, the alcoholic scion of her Sprague stepfamily. But one fateful night in the mansions old boathouse will uncover a devastating truth...and change everything she thought she knew about her past.

As the cameras roll on Mansion Makeover, the house begins to yield up the dark secrets the Spragues thought would stay hidden forever.

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  • Weight: 540g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 23 Jun 2022
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780063040748

About Beatriz WilliamsKaren WhiteLauren Willig

Beatriz Williams is the bestselling author of thirteen novels including Her Last Flight The Summer Wives and The Golden Hour as well as All the Ways We Said Goodbye cowritten with Lauren Willig and Karen White. A native of Seattle she graduated from Stanford University and earned an MBA in finance from Columbia University. She lives with her husband and four children near the Connecticut shore where she divides her time between writing and laundry. Lauren Willig is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of twenty novels including The Summer Country The Ashford Affair and The English Wife. She lives in New York City with her husband and family. Karen White is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of twenty-five novels including Dreams of Falling and The Night the Lights Went Out. She has two grown children and currently lives near Atlanta Georgia with her husband and two spoiled Havanese dogs.

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