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The Lost Summers of Newport - A Novel (Paperback)
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The Lost Summers of Newport - A Novel (Paperback)
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Loot Price R288
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An engrossing and sumptuous tale,
this novel is a fantastic spring read." - Good Morning America From
the New York Times bestselling team of Beatriz Williams, Lauren
Willig, and Karen White-a novel of money and secrets set among the
famous summer mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, spanning over a
century from the Gilded Age to the present day. "Three stories
elegantly intertwine in this clever and stylish tale of murder and
family lies...This crackerjack novel offers three mysteries for the
price of one." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) 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....
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