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It Happens in the Hamptons
It Happens in the Hamptons | Holly Peterson
11 posts | 10 read | 7 to read
In the Hamptons, everyday people are as complicated and fascinating as millionaires...When Katie Doyle moves across the country to the Hamptons, she is hoping to find summer employment, new friends for her young son, and a chance to explore a new love affair with George, a dazzling investor. What she finds is a strange cocktail of classes, where society's one-percenters vacation alongside local, hardworking people who've lived in the Hamptons for generations. Though she's looking forward to her move, Katie is wary about mingling in her boyfriend's East Coast elite circles. She soon discovers Southampton isn't all that it seems to be on the surface--and neither are the people who live there.As George takes Katie on a whirlwind tour of country clubs, haute couture, and lavish events, Katie is amazed to witness sudden whims becoming dire needs, extramarital affairs blossoming right and left, and people purchasing friends and loyalties like a pair of shoes. Even the middle-class townspeople maintain determined facades while maneuvering like sharks among the wealthy summer invaders.The more Katie becomes immersed, the more she learns the stories of both the upstairs and downstairs, the upper crust and middle of the road. The combustion between classes becomes explosive as the summer tears on. Betrayals, a sexual predator, and a missing person lost in murky waves drive the reader on a racing Learjet through impossible twists and turns before landing at the shocking conclusion. When Katie meets Luke, a marine biologist and teacher, he makes her what it is she really wants as she understands the life she's begun for herself is built on shifting Hamptons' dunes.
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TheBookgeekFrau
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 😍 2mo
Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 2mo
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Lydiamansel
Mehso-so

Wouldn‘t read twice

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TheBookgeekFrau
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Ahhhh, The Hamptons, #East Coast playground😉

#ReadingResolutions Day29

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MeganAnnabell
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Pickpick

Very fun read! The ending was sort of unrealistic but I enjoyed this one a lot!

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shanebeth
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a 90th bday celebration has caused me to get a verrry late start to this edition of #24in48 but hey...better late than never! this is my stack for the 'thon, plus whatever is lurking on my Kindle. I've gotta finish Final Girls, so I'm starting with that! I know I won't get 24 hours in, but maybe I can beat the 11 hour mark I hit last time.

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ABookGeek
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Pickpick

This was a fun read. I did think the ending was a bit too neat and kind of all tied up with a bow. A bit unlikely- but fun over all.

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ABookGeek
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Time for some summer reading. This arrived yesterday- about halfway through it. Fun so far.

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Librarylady
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My airplane reading for today- if I don't fall asleep. After four jam-packed days in New York City, I am exhausted.

Reviewsbylola I always fall asleep when I plan on quality reading time! 7y
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LauraBeth
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I ❤️ it when William Morrow does FB live videos 😀 I'll take all of these for the summer!

https://www.facebook.com/HarperCollins/posts/1294429973939547

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intothehallofbooks
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Pickpick

SO FUN! ☀️?? A perfect summer/warm weather read.

I adore "locals vs vacationers" stories. This reminds me of Elin Hilderbrand stories - some of my favorites.

There are several connecting characters + plot lines-some are obvious right away, other connections unfold a little more slowly. I love how the MC Katie is so grounded among all of the high-strung vacationers. They're ridiculous but SO fun to read. The ending is a bit neat but I like it!

cariashley Interesting. I've spent summers in the Hamptons my whole life (not the glitziest version though) and am always equal parts wary/intrigued when it's written about... 8y
intothehallofbooks @cariashley That makes total sense! (I admit to being super cautious about the way NC/the Outer Banks are portrayed too.) I've never been up to the Hamptons, so I only really know it the way it is portrayed in books and in the media. I love that this book has a range of perspectives of the place, although I can't relate to any of them in real life beyond what is on these pages. 8y
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intothehallofbooks
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This looks like the kind of summer read I would like
☀️ 🌊 👙I'm excited to get started.

Thanks for the #bookmail @WilliamMorrow!

WilliamMorrowBooks Love this book! 8y
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