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"On a perfect June day, Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while jogging near her home on Nantucket. She ascends to the Beyond, where she's assigned to a Person named Martha, who allows Vivi to watch what happens below for one last summer. Vivi is granted three znudgesy to change the outcome of events on earth, and with her daughter Willa on her third miscarriage, daughter Carson partying until all hours, and Leo currently zoff againy with his high-maintenance girlfriend, shell have to think carefully about how to use them. From the Beyond, Vivi watches zThe Chiefy Ed Kapenash investigate her death, but her greatest worry is her final book, which contains a secret from her youth that could be disastrous for her reputation. When hidden truths come to light, Vivis family will have to sort out their past and present mistakes--with or without a nudge of help from above--while Vivi finally lets them grow without her. With all of Elin Hilderbrand's trademark beach scenes, mouthwatering meals, and picture-perfect homes, plus a heartfelt message--the people we lose never really leave us--Golden Girl is a beach book unlike any other"-- Dust jacket. |
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Women authors -- Death -- Fiction.
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Future life -- Fiction.
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Hit-and-run drivers -- Fiction.
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Mother and child -- Fiction.
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Secrecy -- Fiction.
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Nantucket (Mass.) -- Fiction.
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Genre |
Fantasy fiction.
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Large print books.
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Psychological fiction.
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ISBN |
9780316278638
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0316278637
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