{"id":2147432841,"date":"2019-10-17T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T07:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snowglitterbooks.com\/?p=2147432841"},"modified":"2019-10-16T14:30:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T12:30:16","slug":"the-summer-wives-beatriz-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snowglitterbooks.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/17\/the-summer-wives-beatriz-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"The Summer Wives – Beatriz Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Titel:<\/strong> The Summer Wives
F\u00f6rfattare:<\/strong> Beatriz Williams
ISBN:<\/strong> 9780062660367
Sidantal: <\/strong>389
F\u00f6rlag:<\/strong> William Morrow
Spr\u00e5k: <\/strong>Engelska
Format: <\/strong>H\u00e4ftad
Utgiven: <\/strong>2018
Handling:<\/strong> ”In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society, still reeling from the loss of her father in the Second World War. When her beautiful mother marries Hugh Fisher, whose summer house on Winthrop overlooks the famous lighthouse, Miranda’s catapulted into a heady new world of pedigrees and cocktails, status and swimming pools. Isobel Fisher, Miranda’s new stepsister–all long legs and world-weary bravado, engaged to a wealthy Island scion–is eager to draw Miranda into the arcane customs of Winthrop society.
But beneath the island’s patrician surface, there are really two clans: the summer families with their steadfast ways and quiet obsessions, and the working class of Portuguese fishermen and domestic workers who earn their living on the water and in the laundries of the summer houses. Uneasy among Isobel’s privileged friends, Miranda finds herself drawn to Joseph Vargas, whose father keeps the lighthouse with his mysterious wife. In summer, Joseph helps his father in the lobster boats, but in the autumn he returns to Brown University, where he’s determined to make something of himself. Since childhood, Joseph’s enjoyed an intense, complex friendship with Isobel Fisher, and as the summer winds to its end, Miranda’s caught in a catastrophe that will shatter Winthrop’s hard-won tranquility and banish Miranda from the island for nearly two decades.
Now, in the landmark summer of 1969, Miranda returns at last, as a renowned Shakespearean actress hiding a terrible heartbreak. On its surface, the Island remains the same–determined to keep the outside world from its shores, fiercely loyal to those who belong. But the formerly powerful Fisher family is a shadow of itself, and Joseph Vargas has recently escaped the prison where he was incarcerated for the murder of Miranda’s stepfather eighteen years earlier. What’s more, Miranda herself is no longer a naive teenager, and she begins a fierce, inexorable quest for justice for the man she once loved . . . even if it means uncovering every last one of the secrets that bind together the families of Winthrop Island.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Det var en l\u00e5ng inledande text! Jag tror inte jag beh\u00f6ver till\u00e4gga n\u00e5got. Det h\u00e4r var en bok som jag egentligen t\u00e4nkt l\u00e4sa p\u00e5 sommaren (p.g.a. titeln) men pl\u00f6stligt k\u00e4nde f\u00f6r att l\u00e4sa s\u00e5 h\u00e4r mitt p\u00e5 h\u00f6sten \u00e4nd\u00e5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boken har m\u00e5nga tidslinjer att f\u00f6lja; Bianca p\u00e5 30-talet, Miranda p\u00e5 50-talet och Miranda 1969. Vi f\u00e5r ta del av mycket av \u00f6ns historia och deras inv\u00e5nare, men speciellt kretsar allt kring en familj, Fisher, som alla har att g\u00f6ra med p\u00e5 ett eller annat s\u00e4tt. Miranda \u00e5terv\u00e4nder till Winthrop Island, mitt i hennes framg\u00e5ngsrika sk\u00e5despelarkarri\u00e4r. Det som finns kvar \u00e4r b\u00e5de sig likt, men samtidigt inte. Det r\u00e5der en gruppindelning p\u00e5 \u00f6n; lokalbefolkningen och de v\u00e4lb\u00e4rgade sommarg\u00e4sterna. B\u00e5da beh\u00f6ver varandra, de lever n\u00e4ra inp\u00e5 varandra under sommaren, n\u00e5got som kan skapa en hel del bekymmer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beatriz Williams var f\u00f6r mig en helt ok\u00e4nd f\u00f6rfattare, men hon kommer definitivt bli en jag l\u00e4ser mera av. Hennes milj\u00f6beskrivningar \u00e4r s\u00e5 otroligt bra, s\u00e5 detaljrika och tidseran k\u00e4nns alltid helt r\u00e4tt. Det finns en trevlig vintage-vibe genom hela boken. I b\u00f6rjan blev jag s\u00e5 h\u00e4nf\u00f6rd av hennes s\u00e4tt att skriva samt alla p\u00e5b\u00f6rjade sp\u00e4nnande tr\u00e5dar att jag trodde boken skulle bli en femma. Synd att det inte riktigt h\u00f6ll till slut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Williams skriver romantik v\u00e4ldigt bra, men stundvis (ibland, endast ibland!) kan det bli lite s\u00e5popera-aktigt. Ocks\u00e5 sj\u00e4lva ploten och hur allt spelar ut sig tenderar bli lite otrov\u00e4rdigt, lite \u00f6verdramatiskt och lite konstlagt. \u00c4nd\u00e5 l\u00e4ser jag g\u00e4rna vidare, p\u00e5 n\u00e5gon niv\u00e5 blev jag van med st\u00e4mningen i ber\u00e4ttelsen och blev underh\u00e5llen. Jag tycker boken b\u00f6rjade s\u00e5 starkt i j\u00e4mf\u00f6relse med slutet, d\u00e4r tappade Williams lite f\u00e4stet. Kanske lite f\u00f6r stora f\u00f6rs\u00f6k att g\u00f6ra boken sp\u00e4nnande, egentligen helt i on\u00f6dan eftersom man som l\u00e4sare s\u00e5g p\u00e5 l\u00e5ngt h\u00e5ll hur allt skulle spela ut sig och genom att ha en mera l\u00e5gm\u00e4ld, romantisk st\u00e4mning s\u00e5 skulle allt varit hur bra som helst. Finns n\u00e5gra specifika h\u00e4ndelser jag bara inte kan komma \u00f6ver hur fel de k\u00e4ndes, s\u00e5 totalt otrov\u00e4rdigt. Men \u00e5 andra sidan, en s\u00e5 mysig bok. Jag \u00e4r v\u00e4ldigt kluven!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

P\u00e5 det stora hela s\u00e5 var boken underh\u00e5llande och som sagt gillar jag verkligen Beatriz Williams som f\u00f6rfattare, jag ska ge flera av hennes b\u00f6cker en chans. Det h\u00e4r var en vintage romance-drama med sm\u00e5 sp\u00e4nningsmoment, n\u00e5got f\u00f6r den som gillar familjedramor, lite i stil med Hannah Richells b\u00f6cker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finns p\u00e5 Adlibris <\/a>och Bokus<\/a><\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Betyg:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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