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Love Letters

Elin Hilderbrand: Married to Nantucket

Love Letters

The Boston Globe

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Meredith has always been a little afraid of Nantucket. Despite living a fast ferry ride away, she’s only been there twice. As far as Meredith is concerned, the people on Nantucket are fancy, the drama is high, and because it’s an island, it’s hard to escape. For best-selling author Elin Hiderbrand, though, Nantucket represents comfort … even when it’s stifling. Nantucket is where Elin found happiness after leaving New York. It’s what inspired her writing. It’s where she found community – and the best kinds of love. In a live conversation recorded in November, Meredith interviews Elin about Nantucket, what it means to fall in love with a place, and why Elin decided to stop writing about the island after decades of living there. They also talk about the power of books about women and love. Elin novels include “The Perfect Couple,” which became a Netflix show starring Nicole Kidman, and “The Five Star Weekend,” which is slated to be a series starring Jennifer Garner. This talk was part of “Globe Summit,” a two-day Boston Globe event that featured journalists speaking with experts in their fields. Remember, Love Letters is also an anonymous advice column. When you ask a relationship question, you help others wondering the same thing. Email your question to loveletters@boston.com. Sign up for Meredith’s newsletter at Boston.com/meredith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hey, everybody, it's Meredith.

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So years ago, I was on the island of Nantucket, a place I have not been many times, despite living pretty close.

1:46.3

Nantucket is a very insular place with a lot of beautiful old homes and Adirondack chairs and wealth that I could never imagine.

1:53.9

And I always felt a little bit scared of Nantucket because it just seemed to be this incredibly

1:59.1

small community of fancy people or people who worked there

2:03.7

for the fancy people. And I just, I don't know. It just seemed like a party I might not be invited to.

2:10.2

But anyway, I went to Nantucket as part of a film festival, as part of my job. And I had gotten

2:16.5

into a fight with a friend. He was really going through a bad

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