Hilderbrand, Elin.

The love season / Elin Hilderbrand. - 1st ed. - New York : St. Martin's Press, c2006. - 294 p. ; 22 cm.

"It's a hot August Saturday on Nantucket Island. Over the course of the next 24 hours, two lives will be transformed forever. Marguerite Beale, former chef of culinary hot spot Les Parapluies, has been out of the public eye for over a decade. This all changes with a phone call from Marguerite's goddaughter, Renata Knox. Marguerite has not seen Renata since the death of Renata's mother, Candace Harris Knox, fourteen years earlier. And now that Renata is on Nantucket visiting the family of her new fiancé, she takes the opportunity, against her father's wishes, to contact Marguerite in hopes of learning the story of her mother's life - and death. But the events of the day spiral hopelessly out of control for both women, and nothing ends up as planned. Welcome to The Love Season - a riveting story that takes place in one day and spans decades; a story that embraces the charming, pristine island of Nantucket, as well as Manhattan, Paris and Morocco. Elin Hilderbrand's most ambitious novel to date chronicles the famous couplings of real lives: love and friendship, food and wine, deception and betrayal - and forgiveness and healing."--Inside jacket.

ISBN: 9781250622877 9780312369699 (St. Martin's Griffin trade pbk.) 9781250024534 9780312322304 0312322305

LCCN: 2006040190

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Family secrets
Women cooks

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.6