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Elin Hilderbrand (born July 17, 1969) is an American writer, mostly of romance novels. Her novels are typically set on and around Nantucket, where she resides. In 2019, New York magazine called Hilderbrand "the queen of beach reads". Biography Hilderbrand was born and raised in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, and was previously a teaching/writing fellow at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She spent her summers on Cape Cod, "playing touch football at low tide, collecting sea glass, digging pools for hermit crabs, swimming out to the wooden raft off shore," until her father died in a plane crash when she was sixteen. She spent the next summer working, doing piecework in a factory that made Halloween costumes; she promised herself that the goal for the rest of her life would be to always have a real summer. She moved to Nantucket in July 1993, took a job as "the classified ads girl" at a local paper, and later started writing.Her first novels were published by St. Martin's Press. With A Summer Affair, published in 2008, she moved to Little, Brown and Company. The Perfect Couple, her first murder mystery, was published in 2018. Actress Ellen Pompeo has been working with ABC in adapting Hilderbrand's Paradise Trilogy into a TV series where she would star after her departure as the lead on Grey's Anatomy.In 1995, Hilderbrand married Chip Cunningham at The Chanticleer in Siasconset, Massachusetts; they divorced in 2015. They have three children together. She had a double mastectomy in June 2014.Her novel The Perfect Couple will be adapted as a miniseries of the same name by television streaming service Netflix, starring Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber, Eve Hewson, and Dakota Fanning. Bibliography Novels The Five-Star Weekend (2023; ISBN 978-0316258777) The Hotel Nantucket (2022; ISBN 978-0-316-25867-8) Golden Girl (2021; ISBN 978-0-316-42008-2) Troubles in Paradise (2020; ISBN 978-0-316-43558-1) 28 Summers (2020; ISBN 978-0-316-42004-4) What Happens in Paradise (2020; ISBN 978-0-316-43557-4) Summer of '69 (2019; ISBN 978-0-316-42001-3) Winter in Paradise (2018; ISBN 978-0-316-43551-2) The Perfect Couple (2018; ISBN 978-0-316-37526-9) Winter Solstice (2017; ISBN 978-0-316-43545-1) The Identicals (2017; ISBN 978-1-473-61123-8) Winter Storms (2016; ISBN 978-0-316-44948-9) Here's To Us (2016; ISBN 978-0-316-37514-6) Winter Stroll (2015; ISBN 978-0-316-26113-5) The Rumor (2015; ISBN 978-0-316-33452-5) Winter Street (2014; ISBN 978-0-316-37611-2) The Matchmaker (2014; ISBN 978-0-316-09975-2) Beautiful Day (2013; ISBN 978-0-316-09976-9) Summerland (2012; ISBN 978-0-316-09983-7) Silver Girl (2011; ISBN 978-0-316-09966-0) The Island (2010; ISBN 978-0-316-04387-8) The Castaways (2009; ISBN 978-0-340-91980-4) A Summer Affair (2008; ISBN 978-0-316-01860-9) Barefoot (2007; ISBN 978-0-316-01859-3) The Love Season (2006; ISBN 0-312-36969-7) The Blue Bistro (2005; ISBN 978-0-312-99262-0) Summer People (2003; ISBN 978-0-312-99719-9 Nantucket Nights (2002; ISBN 978-0-312-98976-7) The Beach Club (2000; ISBN 978-0-312-38242-1)Short Stories The Sixth Wedding: A 28 Summers Story (2021; ISBN 978-0-316-30917-2) Summer of '79: A Summer of '69 Story (2020; ISBN 978-0-316-54180-0) The Tailgate: An Original Short Story (2014; ISBN 978-0-316-37616-7) The Surfing Lesson: An Original Short Story (2013; ISBN 978-0-316-24286-8)References External links Elin Hilderbrand at IMDb. Discover the Elin Hilderbrand popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Elin Hilderbrand books.

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  • Maybe Now synopsis, comments

    Maybe Now

    Colleen Hoover

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends with Usthe longawaited finale to the bestselling Maybe Someday series returns with all the characters...

  • Without Merit synopsis, comments

    Without Merit

    Colleen Hoover

    From Colleen Hoover, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends with Us, comes a moving and haunting novel of family, love, and the power of the trut...

  • Slightly South of Simple synopsis, comments

    Slightly South of Simple

    Kristy Woodson Harvey

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER Glitter Guide’s “Must Reads for April” PopSugar’s “Ultimate Summer Reading” Bustle’s Books to Read and Discuss With Your Mom and Grandma New York Live’s “Ashley...

  • The Guest Book synopsis, comments

    The Guest Book

    Marybeth Whalen

    Twentyfive years after she began exchanging drawings with a mysterious boy in the guest book of a Carolina beach house, Macy Dillon is back at Sunset Beachthis time toting a hurtin...

  • The Bright Hour synopsis, comments

    The Bright Hour

    Nina Riggs

    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Stunning…heartrending…this year’s When Breath Becomes Air.” Nora Krug, The Washington Post “Beautiful and haunting.” Matt McCarthy, MD, USA TOD...

  • Finding Perfect synopsis, comments

    Finding Perfect

    Colleen Hoover

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends with Usthe heartwarming conclusion to the Hopeless series that illustrates the power of following a d...

  • The Summer Wind synopsis, comments

    The Summer Wind

    Mary Alice Monroe

    The Summer Wind is the second book in Monroe’s Lowcountry Summer trilogy, following the New York Times bestselling The Summer Girls. This series is a poignant and heartwarming stor...

  • The Southern Side of Paradise synopsis, comments

    The Southern Side of Paradise

    Kristy Woodson Harvey

    The internationally bestselling Peachtree Bluff series concludes with this “deliciously authentic Southern tale of family and the often messy, complex relationships between sisters...

  • Point of Retreat synopsis, comments

    Point of Retreat

    Colleen Hoover

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us, It Ends with Us, and All Your Perfects. Sometimes two people have to fall apart to realize just how much they be...

  • The Summer House synopsis, comments

    The Summer House

    Santa Montefiore

    Previously published as The Woman from Paris“Superb storyteller” (Plum Sykes) Santa Montefiore’s sweeping and sophisticated international bestseller Summer House is “a feel good st...

  • The Summer of Good Intentions synopsis, comments

    The Summer of Good Intentions

    Wendy Francis

    Cape Cod summers are supposed to remain reassuringly the same, but everything falls apart when three sisters and their families come together for their annual summer vacationand th...

  • Change of Heart synopsis, comments

    Change of Heart

    Jodi Picoult

    The beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author and “master of the craft of storytelling” (Associated Press) weaves a spellbinding tale of a mother’s tragic loss and one man’s cha...

  • The Summer Guests synopsis, comments

    The Summer Guests

    Mary Alice Monroe

    This “authentic, generous, and heartfelt” (Mary Kay Andrews, New York Times bestselling author) novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Beach House series is about ...

  • The Summer House synopsis, comments

    The Summer House

    Hannah McKinnon

    When Flossy Merrill summons her children to the beloved family beach house to celebrate their father’s eightieth birthday, both cherished memories and longkept secrets come to ligh...

  • Feels Like Falling synopsis, comments

    Feels Like Falling

    Kristy Woodson Harvey

    From “the next major voice in Southern fiction” (Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author) and the bestselling author of the Peachtree Bluff series comes the instant USA...

  • A Lowcountry Christmas synopsis, comments

    A Lowcountry Christmas

    Mary Alice Monroe

    A wounded warrior and his younger brother discover the true meaning of Christmas in a timeless story of family bonds in this “lovely and memorable” (Luis Carlos Montalván, New York...

  • November 9 synopsis, comments

    November 9

    Colleen Hoover

    Beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us, It Ends with Us, and All Your Perfects returns with an unforgettable love story between a writer and his unexpect...

  • The Summer Girls synopsis, comments

    The Summer Girls

    Mary Alice Monroe

    From New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe, the heartwarming first installment in the Lowcountry Summer trilogy, a poignant series following three halfsisters and the...

  • Under the Southern Sky synopsis, comments

    Under the Southern Sky

    Kristy Woodson Harvey

    This instant New York Times bestsellerthat’s “perfect for fans of beach reads, P.S. I Love You, and anything by authors Jennifer Weiner and Elin Hilderbrand” (Country Living) follo...

  • It Starts with Us synopsis, comments

    It Starts with Us

    Colleen Hoover

    Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favorite Atlas’s side of the story and shares what comes next in this longanticipated sequel to the “gloriou...

  • On Ocean Boulevard synopsis, comments

    On Ocean Boulevard

    Mary Alice Monroe

    This “authentic, generous, and heartfelt” (Mary Kay Andrews, New York Times bestselling author) instant New York Times bestseller from the author of The Summer of Lost and Found re...

  • Maybe Someday synopsis, comments

    Maybe Someday

    Colleen Hoover

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends with Us comes a passionate tale of friendship, betrayal, and romance.At twentytwo years old, Sydney i...

  • Beach House for Rent synopsis, comments

    Beach House for Rent

    Mary Alice Monroe

    New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe returns to her beloved Isle of Palms to tell the poignant, charming story of two women, one summer, and one very special beach h...

  • The Perfect Couple synopsis, comments

    The Perfect Couple

    Elin Hilderbrand

    From New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand, comes a novel about the many ways family can fill our lives with love...if they don't kill us first. New York Times bestsel...

  • Losing Hope synopsis, comments

    Losing Hope

    Colleen Hoover

    #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends with Us held readers spellbound with her novel Hopeless, the story of what happened when a troubled girl named...

  • Christmas in Peachtree Bluff synopsis, comments

    Christmas in Peachtree Bluff

    Kristy Woodson Harvey

    The newest installment of the New York Times bestselling Peachtree Bluff series follows three generations of Murphy women as they come together to face a hurricane that threatens t...

  • Secrets of the Lighthouse synopsis, comments

    Secrets of the Lighthouse

    Santa Montefiore

    Set in Ireland on the wild coast of Connemara, this hauntingly romantic novel tells the story of a young woman who goes in search of her family’s past and ends up discovering her f...

  • A Lowcountry Wedding synopsis, comments

    A Lowcountry Wedding

    Mary Alice Monroe

    Wedding season has arrived in New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe’s fourth novel in the “distinct, complex, and endearing” (Charleston Magazine) Lowcountry Summer s...

  • Maybe Not synopsis, comments

    Maybe Not

    Colleen Hoover

    Colleen Hoover, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us, It Ends with Us, and Maybe Someday brilliantly brings to life the story of the hilarious and charisma...

  • Confess synopsis, comments

    Confess

    Colleen Hoover

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends with Us, a novel about risking everything for loveand finding your heart somewhere between the truth...

  • Beach House Memories synopsis, comments

    Beach House Memories

    Mary Alice Monroe

    New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe's Southernset classic Beach House Memories, the sequel to The Beach House, now a Hallmark Channel movie starring Andie MacDowell...

  • Three Good Things synopsis, comments

    Three Good Things

    Wendy Francis

    Sisterhood, motherhood, marriage, baking, and booksthese are a few of the things that make this delightful novel a recipe for getting through the tough stuff of lifefrom the author...

  • This Girl synopsis, comments

    This Girl

    Colleen Hoover

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends with Us, Colleen Hoover’s bestselling Slammed series comes to its gripping conclusion. There are two ...

  • The Secret to Southern Charm synopsis, comments

    The Secret to Southern Charm

    Kristy Woodson Harvey

    A 2018 Spring Okra Pick USA TODAY Happy Ever After’s Best Women’s Fiction Southern Living’s Most Anticipated Beach Reads of 2018 Deep South Magazine’s Summer Reading List Raleigh N...

  • Fear Thy Neighbor synopsis, comments

    Fear Thy Neighbor

    Fern Michaels

    A thrilling new book from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of No Way Out, that fans of Nora Roberts and Rachel Caine won’t want to miss! One woman’s pictureperfect island s...

  • Message in the Sand synopsis, comments

    Message in the Sand

    Hannah McKinnon

    An emotional and unforgettable tale of a small town irrevocably affected by an unforeseen and shocking eventfrom the author of the “charming gem of a novel” (Elin Hilderbrand, #1 N...

  • The Summer of Lost and Found synopsis, comments

    The Summer of Lost and Found

    Mary Alice Monroe

    The New York Times bestselling Beach House series continues with this timely, tender, and compassionate tale of perseverance, love, and the bonds of family in the face of tremendou...

  • The Summer Sail synopsis, comments

    The Summer Sail

    Wendy Francis

    “A great summer read for fans of Jennifer Weiner and Emily Giffin.” (Library Journal) A trio of college friends who reunite aboard a cruise ship experience an unforgettable vacatio...

  • The French Gardener synopsis, comments

    The French Gardener

    Santa Montefiore

    A neglected garden. A cottage that holds a secret. A mysterious and handsome Frenchman. Prepare to be “spellbound by the sheer charm” (Daily Express, UK) of Santa Montefiore’s tend...

  • All Your Perfects synopsis, comments

    All Your Perfects

    Colleen Hoover

    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends with Uswhose writing is “emotionally wrenching and utterly original” (Sa...

  • Beach House Reunion synopsis, comments

    Beach House Reunion

    Mary Alice Monroe

    The New York Times bestselling author and “skilled storyteller who never lets her readers down” (Huffington Post) returns to her beloved Beach House series with this “authentic, ge...

  • Finding Cinderella synopsis, comments

    Finding Cinderella

    Colleen Hoover

    #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends With Us writes a free novella about the search for happily ever after.A chance encounter in the dark leads eig...

  • Slammed synopsis, comments

    Slammed

    Colleen Hoover

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends with Us, Colleen Hoover’s romantic, emotionpacked debut novel unforgettably captures all the magic and co...