LFPL's At the Library Series

Love. Exile. Redemption. A perfect combination for a summer beach read. New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams' latest novel, The Summer Wives, is a postwar fable of love, class, power, and redemption set among the inhabitants of an island off of the New England coast, and a satisfying follow-up to her Schuyler Sisters series. Named a Best Book of Summer by Goodreads, BuzzFeed, and PopSugar, The Summer Wives will be in bookstores July 10.Beatriz Williams is the bestselling historical fiction author of A Certain Age, The Secret Life of Violet Grant, A Hundred Summers, and others. A graduate of Stanford University, with an MBA in Finance from Columbia University, Beatriz worked as a communications and corporate strategy consultant in New York and London before she turned her attention to writing novels that combine her passion for history with an obsessive devotion to voice and characterization. Internationally acclaimed, her books have won numerous awards and have been translated into more tha