28 summers

The new, "delightful and bittersweet" novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Summer '69... About a secret love affair that spans decades - but this summer may change everything. (People) "The story is not primarily about a secret affair, but rather a tale of sweet nostalgia and fate." -Library Journal Based on the classic movie Next Year (which Mallory and Jake watch every summer), 28 Summers explores the torment, romance, and dramatic moments of a one-weekend-a-year relationship that complicates or enriches it. their lives and those of their loved ones. When Mallory Blessing, on her deathbed, asks her son to call a number she finds on a slip of paper hidden in her desk drawer, the boy doesn't know what to do. However, he doesn't expect in the least that Jake McCloud will pick up the phone. It's late spring 2020, and Jake's wife, Ursula DeGournsey, is a surefire candidate in the upcoming presidential election. Let's fly back to the heartwarming summer of 1993: Mallory has recently inherited a beach cottage on the island of Nantucket from her aunt and agrees to have her brother's bachelor party at her place. Cooper's college friend Jake McCloud also attends, and Jake and Mallory form a bond that lasts - through marriage, the birth of children, and Ursula's political career rising to astronomical heights - until Mallory learns that she is terminally ill. "Summer is never boring on Nantucket. This time, the author focuses on a couple who got together many years ago, but since then they live their lives separately, but once a year they share an island idyll together. Delightful and bittersweet." -People "This brisk novel is Hilderbrand's best yet... Her stories could be told in broad strokes, but her attention to detail turns her characters into living, breathing people we want to know." -Elisabeth Egan, New York Times Book Review