This is a home where doors don’t close properly and towels never dry and if you open a bag of chips, you better eat them all in one sitting because they’ll be stale within the hour. His mother’s cottage sits on a strip of land between ocean and pond that’s the good news. M allory Blessing tells her son, Link: There’s an envelope in the third drawer of the desk. Under the circumstances, this feels like the only place to start. It’s a story that started twenty-eight summers earlier and that only now-in the summer of 2020, on an island thirty miles off the coast-is coming to an end. Turns out, there’s a story this year that no one has heard yet. If one more person asks if they’re registered to vote…

Others are sick of it they press the mute button, they disengage. Some feel fortunate to be alive at such an exciting time they turn up the volume, become junkies. Kids stop speaking to parents over it couples divorce neighbors feud consumers boycott employees quit. sets TV number four to Fox News the woman who comes in at seven a.m.

It’s everywhere: on the news, on the late-night shows, in the papers, online, online, online, in cocktail-party conversations, on college campuses, in airports, in line at Starbucks, around the bar at Margaritaville, at the gym (the guy who uses the treadmill at six a.m. What are we talking about in 2020? Kobe Bryant, Covid-19, social distancing, Zoom, TikTok, Navarro cheerleading, and… The presidential election. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.Īll characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely Coincidental.Ī CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library The right of Elin Hilderbrand to be identified as the Author of the Work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.Īll rights reserved. First published in the USA in 2020 by Little, Brown and Companyįirst published in Great Britain in 2020 by Hodder & Stoughton

Barefoot by elin hilderbrand