All the Summer Girls: A Novel (P.S.)
Kate Harrington finds out she&#x2019;s pregnant minutes after her fianc&#xE9; dumps her. Vanessa Warren loves being a stay-at-home mom, but she can&#x2019;t stop thinking about her college ex. Dani Lowenstein might be living the writer&#x2019;s life in San Francisco, but she can&#x2019;t hold down a job, and her taste for drugs and alcohol is becoming more pressing than fun. The three women, childhood friends who have drifted from their Philadelphia private-school roots, decide to reunite for Fourth of July weekend at Dani&#x2019;s father&#x2019;s beach house in Avalon, New Jersey, like they did as girls. Vanessa and Dani want to support Kate with a fun, forget-about-him girls&#x2019; weekend, but none of the women can escape the growing tension in the friendship or the specter of Kate&#x2019;s twin brother, Colin, who died eight years before on a similar Avalon summer weekend. Donohue captures the beauty and frustration of reconnecting with old friends&#x2014;they know you so well, and they don&#x2019;t know you at all. Perfect for a staycation for readers who like the beachy drama of Elin Hilderbrand and Susan Wiggs. --Susan Maguire