Regreso a Summer Island / Summer Island

A veces, el camino hacia adelante empieza volviendo al lugar donde todo comenzó.

Hace años, Nora Bridge dijo adiós a su matrimonio, abandonando a sus dos hijas. Desde entonces, se ha convertido en una célebre locutora de radio y columnista, admirada por sus sabios consejos. Su hija menor, Ruby, es una humorista en crisis que utiliza la figura de su famosa madre como blanco de su sarcasmo y su amargura.

Cuando la prensa desentierra un escandaloso secreto del pasado de Nora, la distancia entre ambas se convierte en un abismo. Entonces Nora sufre un accidente y una revista ofrece a Ruby una tentadora suma para escribir un artículo sensacionalista sobre su madre. Ocultando sus verdaderas intenciones, Ruby regresa a casa para cuidar de la mujer con la que no ha hablado en casi una década.

Nora insiste en que ambas se refugien en Summer Island, en la encantadora casa frente al mar donde Ruby creció, un lugar impregnado de sus recuerdos de infancia, de amor y alegría. Allí, Ruby se reencuentra con su primer amor y con su hermano. Los tres llegaron a ser inseparables, hasta aquel verano en que Nora se marchó… dejando un rastro de corazones rotos.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The renowned author of The Women presents a poignant, funny, luminous novel about a mother and daughter—the complex ties that bind them, the past that separates them, and the healing that comes with forgiveness.

“[Kristin] Hannah is superb at delving into the characters’ psyches and delineating nuances of feeling.”—Washington Post Book World

Years ago, Nora Bridge walked out on her marriage and left her daughters behind. She has since become a famous radio talk-show host and newspaper columnist beloved for her moral advice. Her youngest daughter, Ruby, is a struggling comedienne who uses her famous mother as fuel for her bitter, cynical humor. When the tabloids unearth a scandalous secret from Nora’s past, their estrangement suddenly becomes dramatic: Nora is injured in an accident, and a glossy magazine offers Ruby a fortune to write a tell-all about her mother. Under false pretenses, Ruby returns home to take care of the woman she hasn’t spoken to for almost a decade.

Nora insists they retreat to Summer Island in the San Juans, to the lovely old house on the water where Ruby grew up, a place filled with childhood memories of love and joy and belonging. There Ruby is also reunited with her first love and his brother. Once, the three of them had been best friends, inseparable. Until the summer that Nora had left and everyone’s hearts had been broken. . . .

What began as an expose evolves, as Ruby writes, into an exploration of her family’s past. Nora is not the woman Ruby has hated all these years. Witty, wise, and vulnerable, she is desperate to reconcile with her daughter. As the magazine deadline draws near and Ruby finishes what has begun to seem to her an act of brutal betrayal, she is forced to grow up and at last to look at her mother—and herself—through the eyes of a woman. And she must, finally, allow herself to love.