The Five-Star Weekend
Readers rate it 3.8 (79 on Hardcover)
400 pages · Released Jun 13, 2023 · Little, Brown and Company
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This is an adult women's fiction novel centered on grief, friendship, and midlife reflection, not a book for younger readers. The story deals with a character's death (off-page car accident), marital infidelity, mental health crises, and adult romantic tension. While the tone is often lighthearted and the themes ultimately hopeful, the mature content and emotional complexity require a teen or adult reader. The Five-Star Weekend is best suited for older teens and adults who enjoy character-driven literary fiction.
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From the publisher
Hollis Shaw’s life seems picture-perfect. She’s the creator of the popular food blog Hungry with Hollis and is married to Matthew, a dreamy heart surgeon. But after she and Matthew get into a heated argument one snowy morning, he leaves for the airport and is killed in a car accident. The cracks in Hollis’s perfect lif... Hollis Shaw’s life seems picture-perfect. She’s the creator of the popular food blog Hungry with Hollis and is married to Matthew, a dreamy heart surgeon. But after she and Matthew get into a heated argument one snowy morning, he leaves for the airport and is killed in a car accident. The cracks in Hollis’s perfect life—her strained marriage and her complicated relationship with her daughter, Caroline—grow deeper. So when Hollis hears about something called a “Five-Star Weekend”—one woman organizes a trip for her best friend from each phase of her life: her teenage years, her twenties, her thirties, and midlife—she decides to host her own Five-Star Weekend on Nantucket. But the weekend doesn’t turn out to be a joyful Hallmark movie. The husband of Hollis’s childhood friend Tatum arranges for Hollis’s first love, Jack Finigan, to spend time with them, stirring up old feelings. Meanwhile, Tatum is forced to play nice with abrasive and elitist Dru-Ann, Hollis’s best friend from UNC Chapel Hill. Dru-Ann’s career as a prominent Chicago sports agent is on the line after her comments about a client’s mental health issues are misconstrued online. Brooke, Hollis’s friend from their thirties, has just discovered that her husband is having an inappropriate relationship with a woman at work. Again! And then there’s Gigi, a stranger to everyone (including Hollis) who reached out to Hollis through her blog. Gigi embodies an unusual grace and, as it happens, has many secrets.
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- Romance
- Fiction
- Character driven
- Strong Character Development
- Not Diverse Characters
- Loveable Characters
- Diverse Characters
- Unloveable Characters
- reflective
- emotional
- hopeful
- inspiring
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ISBN 9780316258777 · Little, Brown and Company