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And welcome to the Summer Book Club episode, everyone.

We will be spending the entire episode discussing the beechy

read a hundred summers by beatrice williams um okay so let's get into our book discussion but first

i'm going to read the description taken from amazon just to kind of remind us all of what we read

so lily dane has returned to seview rh Island, where her family has summered for generations.

It's an escape not only from New York social scene, but from a heartbreak that still haunts her.

Here among the seaside community that has embraced her since childhood, she finds comfort in the familiar rituals of summer.

But this summer is different.

Budgie and Nick Greenwald, Lily's former best friend and former fiancé, have arrived, too, and see View's elite are a buzz.

Under Budgie's glamorous influence, Lily is seduced into a complicated web of renewed friendship and dangerous longing.

As a cataclysmic hurricane churn turns north through the Atlantic and uneasy secrets slowly reveal

themselves, Lily and Nick must confront an emotional storm that will change their worlds forever.

And it was about as melodramatic as that as well.

It sure was.

It's a good description.

Yes.

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