is nothing short of a gift.'- Lynsey Eidell, , 'It wouldn't be summer without a breezy, sensual Nantucket tale from Hilderbrand, and her latest.doesn't disappoint. And don’t get me started about their teenagers in the novel!ģ calculators out of a potential 5.'Hilderbrand has once again written an engaging story wonderfully illustrating the often complex lives of young people struggling toward adulthood.'- Booklist, 'Queen of the beach read, and her latest. It was actually kind of fun watching their seemingly perfect lives implode. And then you have Grace, who is falling for her handsome gardener/architect. On one hand, you have Madeline, the Nantucket writer, who is struggling to come up with a storyline for her next novel. The Rumor is about how rumors got spread around one Nantucket summer around our not so perfect two main families. I was poolside reading The Rumor and I had a great time as I got lost in the world of the wealthy families of Nantucket. I find that it is best to read Elin Hilderbrand’s novel when you are on a beach or poolside. …that the storybook romance between Madeline’s son, Brick, and Grace’s daughter Allegra is on the rocks, heading for disaster.Īs the gossip escalates, and they face the possible loss of the happy lives they’ve worked so hard to create, Grace and Madeline try mightily to set the record straight–but the truth might be even worse than rumor has it. …that Grace’s husband, successful island real estate developer “Fast Eddie” Pancik, has embarked on quite an unusual side project

…that Grace, hard at work to transform her backyard into a garden paradise, has been collaborating a bit more closely than necessary with her ruggedly handsome landscape architect …that Madeline, a novelist, is battling writer’s block, with a deadline looming, bills piling up, and blank pages driving her to desperation–and a desperately bad decision But this summer, something’s changed, and if there’s anything Nantucket likes better than cocktails on the beach at sunset, it’s a good rumor.

Madeline King and Grace Pancik are best friends and the envy of Nantucket for their perfect marriages, their beautiful kids, their Sunday night double dates with their devoted husbands.

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