The Fifth of July
A Novel
by Kelly Simmons
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Pub Date Aug 29 2017 | Archive Date Jan 03 2018
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Description
Sometimes the people you know best are the ones you should fear the most
Any of the Warners could have been behind the accident. Every one of them had a problem that threatened to tarnish more than their old-money silver.
Having spent the past three decades' worth of summers on Nantucket, the Warners are as much a part of the island as the crust of salt on the ferry. But this year is different: Tripp is no longer the father he was, and it becomes clear that nothing not the beams that hold the house together, and not the values the family clings to can survive the ravages of time. When tradition turns to tragedy, the creaky old house swirls with suspicion. There are just so many reasons to want someone gone.
With no easy answers as to how, why, or who, the Warners must face another frightening question: do they really want to know the truth?
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781492651796 |
| PRICE | $15.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 288 |
Featured Reviews
Rosemary S, Librarian
The Warner family has lived on Nantucket for generations, the wealthy family has lived and played on the island for so long, they are part of the landscape. Until the unthinkable happens and no one in the family is the same. When everyone regards you and your family as an “institution”, do you start to believe it yourself? Is there someone in your own family capable of doing something so terrible, just to make someone disappear? This is a story about family secrets, the inability to face the erosion of trust and the ability to do anything to get what you want, no matter what the price. Starkly beautiful
MaryAnn S, Reviewer
The Fifth of July is one of those books - you know the kind - that draw you in, make you want to know more and make you care about the characters, even the ones you sort of don't like. I felt like I knew these people and I wanted to know more. Such a beautiful setting and used to point out the differences between the old money islanders, the new money islanders and the tourists.
Kelly Simmons is a new to me author and I'll be checking out her other books after reading The Fifth of July.
I would like to have seen the incident with Caroline explained a little more rather than the hints about it, the people that recall what they said even as we're told it wasn't the truth or was shades of the truth...that is why I rated this book 4 stars rather than 5. Throughout the story it's intimated that "the incident" is why Caroline is who she is today, but we never really get the facts from her point of view.
Definitely check out this author and this book, it's a great beach read and something many will enjoy.
Thanks to Netgalley, Kelly Simmons and her publisher for allowing me an early copy.
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