The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand

The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand — Published by Little, Brown and Company

From the #1 bestselling author of The Hotel Nantucket comes a sun-drenched, emotionally rich novel about friendship, grief, and the unexpected ways women save each other.

Hollis Shaw seems to have a perfect life — a successful food blog, a beautiful home on Nantucket, a loving daughter — but when her husband dies suddenly, her world falls apart. In the aftermath of her loss, Hollis decides to invite one friend from each chapter of her life — her college roommate, her childhood best friend, her friend from her early career years, and a friend from her present — to spend a long weekend together on Nantucket. What she hopes will be a healing reunion quickly becomes something far more complicated, as long-buried resentments, unexpected connections, and long-held secrets begin to surface among the group.

Woven throughout are Hollis's food blog posts, each paired with a recipe that captures a memory or emotion, giving the novel a warm, intimate texture that is pure Hilderbrand. At its heart, The Five-Star Weekend is a celebration of female friendship across all its beautiful, messy, irreplaceable forms — and a reminder that the women who know us best are often the ones who help us find our way back to ourselves.

Elin Hilderbrand is the author of more than two dozen novels and has been called the "Queen of Beach Reads" by The Washington Post. She lives on Nantucket Island, the beloved setting of many of her books, which have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list numerous times.