Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)

by Elin Hilderbrand

Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?

The late great novelist John Gardner famously said that there are only two plots: One, a person goes on a journey, and two, a stranger comes to town.”

Kacy feels embarrassed that she’s never read Moby-Dick. Like all the other nurses on her unit, she reads Colleen Hoover.

The lounge has a seating area with a sofa upholstered in cheerful pink and white stripes and two pink Ultrasuede armchairs. This has never made sense to Delilah—who would want to hang out in what is essentially the ladies’ room?—but now she collapses in one of the armchairs and thinks how nice it is to have a comfortable place to sit while she processes her best friend’s betrayal.

Are her married friends gathering without telling her, rationalizing it as “giving her space” when really they’re just afraid that divorce is a contagious disease?

Sharon shrieks with joy. Suddenly she’s the heroine in a story about second chances!

Sharon has become the kind of woman she never understood before—someone who doesn’t need to talk about other people to make her days more interesting because her days are interesting enough as it is.

There are a few beachgoers, people who understand that the best part of the summer are these golden September days.