Overview
Back in high school, Tracy, Olivia, and Holly were known as The Godmothers, the girls everyone wanted to be and know. Unlike many friendships, their bond survived the years. But 20 years later, their glamorous leader, Olivia, whose wealthy Italian husband has died, suggests they reunite on her return to the
Synopsis
A breathtaking novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard.
Back in high school, Tracy, Olivia, and Holly were known as The Godmothers, the girls everyone wanted to be and know. Unlike many friendships, their bond survived the years. But 20 years later, their glamorous leader, Olivia, whose wealthy Italian husband has died, suggests they reunite on her return to the United States with a luxury sailboat crossing in the Caribbean. With Tracy's college-aged daughter and an attentive two-man crew, they sail into paradise. But then, the smallest mistake triggers a series of devastating events. Suddenly in a desperate fight for survival, they battle the elements, dwindling food and water, the threat of modern-day piracy, and their own frailties.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard delivers a breathtaking adventure and a story about the bonds that hold friendships and families together.
The Washington Post - Caroline Preston
…her aim is to create a high-seas yarn with a suburban-mom twist. While the relentless nautical calamities are far-fetched, the women's willingness to throw themselves overboard, literally, to save a precious daughter is not. As the title implies, Still Summer provides an entertaining hammock read…
Editorials
Caroline Preston
…her aim is to create a high-seas yarn with a suburban-mom twist. While the relentless nautical calamities are far-fetched, the women's willingness to throw themselves overboard, literally, to save a precious daughter is not. As the title implies, Still Summer provides an entertaining hammock read…—The Washington Post
Publishers Weekly
Bestselling Mitchard offers the harrowing tale of four women lost at sea and pitted against nature and a cohort of contemporary pirates. Tracy, Holly and Olivia have known each other since high school, when they were glamorous, popular troublemakers. Twenty-five years after graduation, the three women, plus Tracy's 19-year-old daughter, Camille, set out on a "reading, sunning, gossiping" trip aboard a luxe sailboat helmed by a two-man crew. But a storm leaves the women adrift with no sail or engine and their co-captains gone overboard. With limited sailing experience, failing radio equipment and a rapidly diminishing cache of food and water, the women are vulnerable to the worst threats the Caribbean can offer—the elements, sharks and, most troublesome, pirates. This fast-paced novel borrows qualities from several genres—suspense, survival epic, coming-of-age—and mostly succeeds in melding the better aspects of each, though Mitchard has a surer hand in creating women characters than men. Mitchard's fans will appreciate this high-stakes adventure. (Aug.)
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