While at TLA we had AREs of Newport and the jacket was very enticing, so I made a note to download the galley when I got home. Good thing too because now I can tell you all how delightful a summer read this will be!
Newport takes place in 1921. WWI is over, prohibition is a joke amongst the affluent ranks in effect, and the depression is still years away, so Newport, R.I. is thriving and home to America's rich and richer.
Adrian de la Noye, a successful and debonaire lawyer, arrives at the home of his client, widower Bennett Chapman, to draw up a new will. Mr. Chapman plans to remarry and wants to make his future bride the beneficiary, however his two awful, rancorous children wish to declare him unfit to do so. The reason? Bennett Chapman believes his deceased wife has arranged this marriage via seance!
Is that true or is he batty? And how exactly does Adrian know the bride-to-be? The number of secrets involved in this story makes the pages fly by as you eagerly try to unearth them. For fans of Amor Towles or Beatriz Williams.
– Annie