The Solstice Summer: A Novel
Feb 2027 · Sold by Simon and Schuster
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From the author of Book-of-the-Month Club selection Women Like Us and Oprah magazine Notable Book Wild Girls, a wickedly smart portrait of wealth, desire, and ambition where the glamorous world of the ultra-rich is both alluring and treacherous.
On the longest, most intoxicating day of the year, desire breaks all the rules. During the summer solstice, three mismatched couples in a famously wealthy resort town are thrown off balance by sexual attraction and the quiet reckoning of who they’ve been and who they might still become.
Vanessa, a celebrated actress with a career in slow eclipse, returns to town hoping to revive a long-ago love. Annie, a former ballet star, arrives in flight from a shadowed past she refuses to name. Charlotte, the blueblood wife of an abusive tycoon, gets caught in the throes of surprising romantic choices. Meanwhile, Petra—mischievous, sharp-eyed, and slightly dangerous—watches it all unfold, chronicling the three women’s hidden desires even as she nudges events in unexpected directions. As love sparks between unexpected partners, regret over roads not taken collides with the fleetingness of time, giving this present-day drama the shimmer of a summer already slipping into memory.
Set amid opulent gardens and grand estates, The Solstice Summer is both a sensual comedy of manners and a wickedly funny takedown of the corporate titans of a new Gilded Age—an elite so rich and powerful it will stop at nothing to protect itself.
On the longest, most intoxicating day of the year, desire breaks all the rules. During the summer solstice, three mismatched couples in a famously wealthy resort town are thrown off balance by sexual attraction and the quiet reckoning of who they’ve been and who they might still become.
Vanessa, a celebrated actress with a career in slow eclipse, returns to town hoping to revive a long-ago love. Annie, a former ballet star, arrives in flight from a shadowed past she refuses to name. Charlotte, the blueblood wife of an abusive tycoon, gets caught in the throes of surprising romantic choices. Meanwhile, Petra—mischievous, sharp-eyed, and slightly dangerous—watches it all unfold, chronicling the three women’s hidden desires even as she nudges events in unexpected directions. As love sparks between unexpected partners, regret over roads not taken collides with the fleetingness of time, giving this present-day drama the shimmer of a summer already slipping into memory.
Set amid opulent gardens and grand estates, The Solstice Summer is both a sensual comedy of manners and a wickedly funny takedown of the corporate titans of a new Gilded Age—an elite so rich and powerful it will stop at nothing to protect itself.
From the author of Book-of-the-Month Club selection Women Like Us and Oprah magazine Notable Book Wild Girls, a wickedly smart portrait of wealth, desire, and ambition where the glamorous world of the ultra-rich is both alluring and treacherous.
On the longest, most intoxicating day of the year,...
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About the author
Erica Abeel is an acclaimed novelist, journalist, film critic, and former dancer. She is the author of seven previous books, including Women Like Us (a Book-of-the-Month Club selection), Conscience Point, Wild Girls (an Oprah selection), and The Commune, praised for its wit and feminist bite. A Sarah Lawrence alumna, Abeel holds a PhD in French literature and formerly taught at Barnard/Columbia and City University. Her work often explores women rebels who lived against the grain before the social upheavals of the 1960s. She lives in New York City.
Erica Abeel is an acclaimed novelist, journalist, film critic, and former dancer. She is the author of seven previous books, including Women Like Us (a Book-of-the-Month Club selection), Conscience Point, Wild Girls (an Oprah selection), and The Commune, praised for its wit and feminist bite. A S...
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