The Lost Summers of Newport

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<p><b>THE <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER</b></p><p><b>"An engrossing and sumptuous tale, this novel is a fantastic spring read." - <i>Good Morning America</i></b></p><p><b>From the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling team of Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White-a historical fiction novel of money and secrets set among the famous summer mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, spanning over a century from the Gilded Age to the present day.</b></p><p><b>"Three stories elegantly intertwine in this clever and stylish tale of murder and family lies...This crackerjack novel offers three mysteries for the price of one." -<i>Publishers Weekly</i> (starred review)</b></p><p>2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer of <i>Mansion Makeover</i>, a popular reality show about restoring America's most lavish historic houses. Andie has high hopes for her latest project: the once glorious but gently crumbling Sprague Hall in Newport, Rhode Island, summer resort of America's gilded class-famous for the lavish "summer cottages" of Vanderbilts and Belmonts. But Andie runs into trouble: the reclusive heiress who still lives in the mansion, Lucia "Lucky" Sprague, will only allow the show to go forward on two conditions: One, nobody speaks to her. Two, nobody touches the mansion's ruined boathouse.</p><p>1899: Ellen Daniels has been hired to give singing lessons to Miss Maybelle Sprague, a naive young Colorado mining heiress whose stepbrother John has poured their new money into buying a place among Newport's elite. John is determined to see Maybelle married off to a fortune-hunting Italian prince, and Ellen is supposed to polish up the girl for her launch into society. But the deceptively demure Ellen has her own checkered past, and she's hiding in plain sight at Sprague Hall.</p><p>1958: Lucia "Lucky" Sprague has always felt like an outsider at Sprague Hall. When she and her grandmother-the American-born Princess di Conti-fled Mussolini's Italy, it seemed nat

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780063040755

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

201 x 132 x 26 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

HarperCollins