The Castaways
- Published
- 1 January 2009
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN-13
- 9780316043892
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Castaways is the 2nd book in the Nantucket series, written by Elin Hilderbrand, published in 2009. It sits between A Summer Affair and The Perfect Couple in the reading order.
Key facts about The Castaways
Elin Hilderbrand wrote The Castaways, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2009. The book has 368 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780316043892 to find the main one.
The Castaways is book 2 of 4 in the Nantucket series. The series has 4 published books. However, the series starts with A Summer Affair (2008).
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
The Castaways is book 2 in the Nantucket series. It follows A Summer Affair. It is followed by The Perfect Couple. 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 9780316043892
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780316076319
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781602855519