Spotlight: Summer of Love

It’s the summer of 1967 and the counterculture revolution is in full swing in San Francisco. Every street is alive with the music of Jim Morrison and Dionne Warwick, and in view of the Golden Gate bridge young people come together, waving anti-war signs and shouting for equal rights. No one is more into the messages of love and peace than Winnie Hartley who has just graduated from UC Berkeley determined to use poetry to capture the ever-shifting world around her. When she reconnects with her high school boyfriend, an aspiring musician, their creative bond further fuels her work, and it feels like her life is finally taking off.

Meanwhile, miles up the winding coast, her sister Miranda stays close to home, throwing herself into running the family business, Hartley Vineyard. She’s determined to make California wine that rivals French. But change is in the air this wild and heady summer, and each sister will make choices that set their lives hurdling down paths neither would have imagined.

Fifty years later, Dawn Hartley stays as far as possible from her family’s famous vineyard, until a work assignment requires her to research the bestselling Vineland novels penned by a famously anonymous author. Determined to discover the identity of this mysterious writer—who seems to know things no one should about her family—Dawn embarks on a soul-searching journey along the windswept coast of California to uncover her family’s secrets even as she’s keeping a big one of her own. (Synopsis courtesy of Amazon.)

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"This dual timeline narrative deftly transports the reader to the sunny California landscapes of yesterday and today and delivers a wallop of a story that keeps the pages turning late into the night."
—Susie Orman Schnall, bestselling author of Anna Bright Is Hiding Something

“A gorgeous golden ode to California history, from the sun-drenched Napa wineries to the hippy-jammed concerts of San Francisco at the height of the sixties. … A delightful intergenerational tale.”
—Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Briar Club

"Poignant, page turning and relevant today, I couldn’t stop reading about these women living on the precipice of transformation until the final page.”
—Brooke Lea Foster, award-winning author of Summer Darlings

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Kerri Maher is the USA Today and #1 international bestselling author of The Paris Bookseller, All You Have To Do is Call, The Kennedy Debutante, and The Girl in White Gloves. She is also the author of This Is Not A Writing Manual: Notes for the Young Writer in the Real World under the name Kerri Majors. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and founded YARN, an award-winning literary journal of short-form YA writing. (Bio courtesy of Amazon.)

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