'The Five-Star Weekend' by Elin Hilderbrand
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hotel Nantucket, The Five-Star Weekend is a captivating story of friendship, love, and self-discovery set on Nantucket.
Food blogger Hollis Shaw’s life seems picture-perfect: she’s the creator of Hungry with Hollis, married to Matthew, a heart surgeon, and mother to Caroline. But after a heated argument one snowy morning, Matthew leaves for the airport and dies in a car accident. In the wake of her loss, the cracks in Hollis’s seemingly perfect life—and her complicated relationship with her daughter—become harder to ignore.
Then Hollis hears about the “Five-Star Weekend,” a gathering where a woman invites her best friend from each stage of life. She decides to host her own on Nantucket, bringing together friends from her teens, twenties, thirties, and midlife.
The weekend soon proves more complicated than a joyful escape. Old feelings resurface when Hollis’s first love, Jack Finigan, joins the group. Her childhood friend Tatum must navigate a tense relationship with Dru-Ann, Hollis’s college best friend, whose career as a Chicago sports agent is threatened after her comments about a client’s mental health are misconstrued online. Brooke, a friend from Hollis’s thirties, has discovered that her husband is once again having an inappropriate relationship at work. And Gigi, a stranger who connected with Hollis through her blog, arrives with a quiet grace—and secrets of her own.
On Nantucket, four friends from different chapters of Hollis’s life come together for a weekend like no other.
