A Summer Affair
- Published
- 1 January 2008
- Pages
- 471
- ISBN-13
- 9780340994429
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Summer Affair opens Elin Hilderbrand's Nantucket series, published in 2008, running 471 pages. It precedes The Castaways in the reading order. The series ran from 2008 to 2024 across 4 books.
Key facts about A Summer Affair
Elin Hilderbrand wrote A Summer Affair, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2008. The book has 471 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780340994429 to find the main one.
A Summer Affair is book 1 of 4 in the Nantucket series. The series has 4 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Elin Hilderbrand writes Winter Street, Paradise and The Academy as separate series. Those series sit on our women's fiction and young adult fiction shelves. Meanwhile, The Academy is the latest published Elin Hilderbrand book on file, from 16 September 2025.
About Elin Hilderbrand
Elin Hilderbrand is an American novelist known as the reigning voice of Nantucket fiction, having set the great majority of her nearly thirty books on the Massachusetts island where she has lived since the early 1990s. See every Elin Hilderbrand book in order.
Its place in Nantucket
A Summer Affair is book 1 in the Nantucket series. It is followed by The Castaways. See the full Nantucket reading order.
Four of Elin Hilderbrand's standalone-in-plot novels -- spanning sixteen years of her career -- are linked by the recurring figure of Ed Kapenash, Nantucket's police chief, who investigates a death or disappearance at the center of each book. A Summer Affair (2008) centers on a charity-gala affair that spins out of control; The Castaways (2009) follows a tight circle of island couples after one pair drowns in a sailing accident Kapenash can't quite close the book on; The Perfect Couple (2018) turns a Nantucket…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780340994429
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780340994436
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780739496466