Love love loved it!!

This was such a fast read!! I read it within a matter of 3 days... Claire is a character that I easily pictured and put a face to. I think that the amount of detail described each character perfectly. The plot of the story kept you reading until the end to see the culmination of what happens at the Childrens event. Definetly reccomend this one to friends!!

great summer read

Just the thing to read on a lazy summer day sitting in the shade. I enjoyed it.

Entertainment for the car

Elin Hilderbrand is a pleasure to read. Her East Coast settings are like traveling there within her works. Easy to read, light, entertaining for the times when we just want to relax and indulge.

Motivation Weak

Motivation is weak. While Hilderbrand writes well, the main character, Claire, blunders into saying yes to co-chairing a huge charity gala despite an already crazily busy life with four children, one of them still an infant she worries about because she had to give birth early by Caesarean section--due to an accident in her glass-blowing studio. She just can't say no, which the author articulates. However, once she actually begins working with the head of the charity, Lock Dixon, she suddenly and inexplicably--even to her--conceives an attraction to him, even though he is middle-aged, paunchy and balding, contrasted with her washboard-stomached young husband. Quickly, they embark on an affair, both of them professing to love the other. In a big coincidence, she turns out to be the high-school girlfriend of a big rock star, and Lock has asked her to request that he perform at the gala, gratis--obviously why she was asked to co-chair. Claire flays herself with guilt over the affair, though she won't end it, even though in high school she behaved like a guiltless slut with the pre-rock star, even sneaking into his aunt's house at night after her job to strip down and jump on top of him while he was asleep, to wake him for sex. Either she has a sense of her professed Catholic morality or she doesn't--this doesn't square with her later dilemma with Lock. The Blue Bistro was a much better book, which almost seems not to have been written by the same woman. The Nantucket backdrop is vague--I never felt I was there; and the ending was abrupt, barely felt by Claire who had been emoting wildly about her feelings and her guilt up until this point in the book. It was like a French movie, which a friend of mine insists just ends when the cameraman runs out of film.

Good book...needed an Epilogue

I liked this book. There were a lot of layers to this story. I was able to identify with Claire, and I could understand where she was coming from. I liked how there was a different POV with each chapter, but I wished that Jason would have had a few chapters. I did feel like this story ended too abruptly though. I thought that there should have been closure to some of the other stories...Carter & Siobhan, Gavin, Locke & Daphne. Above all though, this was a good read.