Silver Girl: A Novel

Meredith Martin Delinn just lost everything: her friends, her homes, her social standing because her husband Freddy cheated rich investors out of billions of dollars. Desperate and facing homelessness, Meredith receives a call from her old best friend, Constance Flute. Connie's had recent worries of her own, and the two depart for a summer on Nantucket in an attempt to heal. But the island can't offer complete escape, and they're plagued by new and old troubles alike. When Connie's brother Toby Meredith's high school boyfriend arrives, Meredith must reconcile the differences between the life she is leading and the life she could have had. Set against the backdrop of a Nantucket summer, Elin Hilderbrand delivers a suspenseful story of the power of friendship, the pull of love, and the beauty of forgiveness. Clearly the Madoff family inspired this plot, but Hilderbrand gives it her own sun-kissed, optimistic spin which is not to say its all Rosa rugosa, just that theres a silver lining to the ugliest of circumstances. Elisabeth Egan, New York Times