I'd been thinking about nominating
The Boys of Summer, but one baseball book is probably enough.
I have two nominations:
Atonement by Ian McEwan and
A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams.
Atonement
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Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose.
On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment’s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant and Cecilia’s childhood friend. But Briony’ s incomplete grasp of adult motives–together with her precocious literary gifts–brings about a crime that will change all their lives. As it follows that crime’s repercussions through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century, Atonement engages the reader on every conceivable level, with an ease and authority that mark it as a genuine masterpiece.
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Amazon U.S. $11.99
Kobo U.S. $11.99
Amazon UK £4.99
Kobo UK £4.99
Amazon Canada $12.99 CAD
Kobo Canada$12.99 CAD
Amazon Australia $14.99 AUD
Kobo Australia $14.99 AUD
A Hundred Summers
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As the 1938 hurricane approaches Rhode Island, another storm brews in this New York Times bestseller from the author of The Secret Life of Violet Grant and Along the Infinite Sea.
Lily Dane has returned to Seaview, Rhode Island, where her family has summered for generations. It’s an escape not only from New York’s social scene but from a heartbreak that still haunts her. Here, among the seaside community that has embraced her since childhood, she finds comfort in the familiar rituals of summer.
But this summer is different. Budgie and Nick Greenwald—Lily’s former best friend and former fiancé—have arrived, too, and Seaview’s elite are abuzz. Under Budgie’s glamorous influence, Lily is seduced into a complicated web of renewed friendship and dangerous longing.
As a cataclysmic hurricane churns north through the Atlantic, and uneasy secrets slowly reveal themselves, Lily and Nick must confront an emotional storm that will change their worlds forever...
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Amazon U.S. $11.99
Kobo U.S. $11.99
Amazon UK £3.99
Kobo UK £3.99
Amazon Canada $8.99 CAD
Kobo Canada $8.99 CAD
Amazon Australia $3.99 AUD
Kobo Australia $9.99 AUD
Ebook and audiobook for both in Overdrive, audiobook for both in Scribd.