Amy's Reviews > A Hundred Summers

I really adore anything Beatriz Williams writes. She is a beautiful author that captures me in her first pages. I can already smell the sea air, and its always a heroine and hero I can adore and root for. And so it is with Lily and Nick. The side characters are also colorful and full of life.

It is 1938, and much of the book takes place at Seaview, near Newport, in RI, where our grand noblesse of the era "Summer." Right now I am watching the Gilded Age, Season Two, and there is a bit of that kind of snobbery, elite match, gossipy thing going on. But other parts of it could have been contemporary. It was so easy to see this book feel in a way "undated." It was fun, it was easy, it was great.