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One Summer a Private Island and a Mystery What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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Last summer Beatriz Williams enticed her readers   with a story about a private island and a mystery from long ago.   The novel is TheSummer Wives and it tells the story of   Miranda Schuyler and that fateful summer of 1951.   Could her connections from the past come back to haunt her? What impact could it have on her future? Facebook    Twitter     Instagram “In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island.   She is   still reeling from the loss of her father in the Second World War. When her beautiful mother marries Hugh Fisher, whose summer house on Winthrop overlooks the famous lighthouse, Miranda’s catapulted into a heady new world of pedigrees and cocktails,   and status. Isobel Fisher, Miranda’s new stepsister is engaged to a wealthy Island scion. But beneath the island’s patrician surface, there are really two clans: the summer families with their steadfast ways and quiet obsessions, and the working class of Portuguese fishermen and do