BOOK INFORMATION:
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Weekenders comes a delightful new novel about new love, old secrets, and the kind of friendship that transcends generations.
When ninety-nine-year-old heiress Josephine Bettendorf Warrick summons Brooke Trappnell to Talisa Island, her 20,000 acre remote barrier island home, Brooke is puzzled. Everybody in the South has heard about the eccentric millionaire mistress of Talisa, but Brooke has never met her. Josephine’s cryptic note says she wants to discuss an important legal matter with Brooke, who is an attorney, but Brooke knows that Mrs. Warrick has long been a client of a prestigious Atlanta law firm.
Over a few meetings, the ailing Josephine spins a tale of old friendships, secrets, betrayal and a long-unsolved murder. She tells Brooke she is hiring her for two reasons: to protect her island and legacy from those who would despoil her land, and secondly, to help her make amends with the heirs of the long dead women who were her closest friends, the girls of The High Tide Club—so named because of their youthful skinny dipping escapades—Millie, Ruth and Varina. When Josephine dies with her secrets intact, Brooke is charged with contacting Josephine’s friends’ descendants and bringing them together on Talisa for a reunion of women who’ve actually never met.
The High Tide Club is Mary Kay Andrews at her Queen of the Beach Reads best, a compelling and witty tale of romance thwarted, friendships renewed, justice delivered, and true love found.
When ninety-nine-year-old heiress Josephine Bettendorf Warrick summons Brooke Trappnell to Talisa Island, her 20,000 acre remote barrier island home, Brooke is puzzled. Everybody in the South has heard about the eccentric millionaire mistress of Talisa, but Brooke has never met her. Josephine’s cryptic note says she wants to discuss an important legal matter with Brooke, who is an attorney, but Brooke knows that Mrs. Warrick has long been a client of a prestigious Atlanta law firm.
Over a few meetings, the ailing Josephine spins a tale of old friendships, secrets, betrayal and a long-unsolved murder. She tells Brooke she is hiring her for two reasons: to protect her island and legacy from those who would despoil her land, and secondly, to help her make amends with the heirs of the long dead women who were her closest friends, the girls of The High Tide Club—so named because of their youthful skinny dipping escapades—Millie, Ruth and Varina. When Josephine dies with her secrets intact, Brooke is charged with contacting Josephine’s friends’ descendants and bringing them together on Talisa for a reunion of women who’ve actually never met.
The High Tide Club is Mary Kay Andrews at her Queen of the Beach Reads best, a compelling and witty tale of romance thwarted, friendships renewed, justice delivered, and true love found.
MY THOUGHTS ON THE BOOK
The High Tide Club is a contemporary read. Although it also has some mystery and secrets inside it. This is my second Mary Kay Andrews novel. I loved it so much. Basically, secrets from the past are slowly revealed in this story.
The story is told from the point of view of Brooke Trappnell, who is a thirty-something single mother struggling to make it. She is a lawyer in a very small town. There are flashes of a long past group of women that call themselves the High Tide Club. They are now led by a ninety-nine-year-old named Josephine Bettendorf Warrick. Who also has to deal with a devastating diagnosis.
After carrying a secret for the last seventy years she wants nothing more than make things right before she passes. She also wants to protect Talisa Island which her family owned and lived on for many years.
Then Brooke receives a phone call from a widower, curiosity wins her over. She wonders what Josephine needs and how she can help. She has an urge to meet her. The story that Josephine tells is one of a long-ago death and also one of three friends she would like to make amends with.
This book has the same wonderful writing style as always it was easy to fall into this story. I was interested in this from the opening pages. The weaving of the present with the past was nicely done. I have rarely liked that type of story previously. In the end, I loved this multi-generational story of women and their interesting lives.
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