As a child, she spent summers on Cape Cod, 'playing touch football at low tide, collecting sea glass, digging pools for hermit crabs, swimming out to the wooden raft off shore,' until her father died in a plane crash when she was sixteen. Hilderbrand was born and raised in Collegeville, Pennsylvania.

Her books have been set on and around Nantucket Island where she lives with her husband and three children.

Currently-lives in Nantucket, MassachuesttsĮlin Hilderbrand is an American writer of Summer beach read romance novels, some 20 in all.Education-B.A., Hopkins University University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.The three very different women have long been bitter rivals, each wanting to claim the primary place in Deacon's life and his heart.īut as they slowly let go of the resentments they've held onto for years and remember the good times, secrets are revealed, confidences are shared, and improbable bonds are formed as this unlikely family says goodbye to the man who brought them all together, for better or worse-and the women he loved find new ways to love again ( From the publisher.) Now Deacon's three wives, his children, and his best friend gather on the island he loved to say farewell. But after that appetite contributes to Deacon's shocking death in his favorite place on earth, a ramshackle Nantucket summer cottage, his (messy, complicated) family is reeling. An emotional, heartwarming story from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand about a grieving family that finds solace where they least expect it.Ĭelebrity chef Deacon Thorpe has always been a force of nature with an insatiable appetite for life.

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