The Summer Wives

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New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams brings us the essential novel of the season—a ravishing postwar fable of love, class, power, and redemption set among the inhabitants of an exclusive island off the New England coastIn the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on Winthrop Island, where she is catapulted into a heady new world of pedigrees and cocktails. But beneath the Island’s patrician facade, there are two castes: the summer families with their steadfast ways, and the working class of Portuguese fishermen and domestic laborers. Miranda finds herself drawn to Joseph Vargas, whose father keeps the lighthouse. As the summer winds to its end, Joseph and Miranda are caught in a catastrophe that will shatter Winthrop’s hard-won tranquility and banish Miranda from the Island for nearly two decades.Now, in the summer of 1969, Miranda returns at last. No longer a naive teenager, Miranda begins an impassioned quest for justice for the man she once loved.