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The lost summers of Newport : a novel  Cover Image Book Book

The lost summers of Newport : a novel / Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White.

Summary:

"2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer of Mansion Makeover, a popular reality show about restoring America's most lavish historic houses. Andie has high hopes for her latest project: the once glorious but gently crumbling Sprague Hall in Newport, Rhode Island, summer resort of America's gilded class--famous for the lavish "summer cottages" of Vanderbilts and Belmonts. But Andie runs into trouble: the reclusive heiress who still lives in the mansion, Lucia "Lucky" Sprague, will only allow the show to go forward on two conditions: One, nobody speaks to her. Two, nobody touches the mansion's ruined boathouse. 1899: Ellen Daniels has been hired to give singing lessons to Miss Maybelle Sprague, a naive young Colorado mining heiress whose stepbrother John has poured their new money into buying a place among Newport's elite. John is determined to see Maybelle married off to a fortune-hunting Italian prince, and Ellen is supposed to polish up the girl for her launch into society. But the deceptively demure Ellen has her own checkered past, and she's hiding in plain sight at Sprague Hall. 1958: Lucia "Lucky" Sprague has always felt like an outsider at Sprague Hall. When she and her grandmother--the American-born Princess di Conti--fled Mussolini's Italy, it seemed natural to go back to the imposing Newport house Nana owned but hadn't seen since her marriage in 1899. Over the years, Lucky's lost her Italian accent and found a place for herself among the yachting set by marrying Stuyvesant Sprague, the alcoholic scion of her Sprague stepfamily. But one fateful night in the mansion's old boathouse will uncover a devastating truth...and change everything she thought she knew about her past. As the cameras roll on Mansion Makeover, the house begins to yield up the dark secrets the Spragues thought would stay hidden forever...." -- provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780063040748
  • ISBN: 0063040743
  • Physical Description: 391 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022]
Subject: Family secrets > Fiction.
Upper class women > Fiction.
Heiresses > Fiction.
Mansions > Fiction.
Newport (R.I.) > Fiction.
Genre: Thrillers (Fiction)
Novels.

Available copies

  • 8 of 8 copies available at Sage Library System.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 8 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Status Due Date Courses
Athena Public Library FIC WIL (Text) 37813000191091 Adult Fiction Available -
Baker Bookmobile Branch WILLIAMS (Beatriz) (Text) 37814003502011 FICTION - NEW Available -
Cook Memorial Library - La Grande F Williams, B (Text) 35178001888547 Adult Fiction Available -
Ione Public Library 813 WILL (Text) 37843000088989 Adult Fiction Available -
Parkdale Library FIC WILLIAMS (Text) 33892100797563 Adult Fiction Available -
Pilot Rock Public Library McN F WIL (Text) 37868000149655 McNaughton Collection Available -
Sherman County Public/School Library FIC WIL (Text) 37039000207568 FICTION Available -
The Dalles Wasco County Library WILLI (Text) 33892006742226 New Books Available -


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