Marie Claire asked authors who are known for their summer beach reads, from Jennifer Weiner to Elin Hilderbrand, to recommend their personal favorites.
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We expect to have good mothers, and to marry, and to be good mothers. The arrival of baby Violet was meant to be the happiest day of my life. I would be different. I would be like other women for whom it all came so easily. I would be everything my own mother was not.
But as soon as I held her in my arms I knew something wasn't right.
'My husband Fox says I'm imagining it. He tells me I'm nothing like my own mother, and that Violet is the sweetest child. But she's different with me. Something feels very wrong. Is she the monster? Or am I?'
Updated / Monday, 10 May 2021
18:00
We're delighted to present an extract from
The Summer Job, the new novel by by Lizzy Dent, published by Penguin Random House.
Have you ever imagined running away from your life? Well Birdy Finch didn't just imagine it. She did it. Which might've been an error. And the life she's run into? Her best friend, Heather's. The only problem is, she hasn't told Heather. Actually there are a few other problems... Can Birdy carry off a summer at a luxury Scottish hotel pretending to be her best friend (who incidentally is a world-class wine expert)? And can she stop herself from falling for the first man she's ever actually liked (but who thinks she's someone else)?
Published April 1, 2021
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