Monarch Beach - Softcover

Hughes, Anita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312643047 ISBN 13: 9780312643041

Publisher: St Martin's Griffin, 2012

Synopsis

Anita Hughes' Monarch Beach is an absorbing debut novel about one woman's journey back to happiness after an affair splinters her perfect marriage and life--what it means to be loved, betrayed and to love again.

When Amanda Blick, a young mother and kindhearted San Francisco heiress, finds her gorgeous French chef husband wrapped around his sous-chef, she knows she must flee her life in order to rebuild it. The opportunity falls into her lap when her (very lovable) mother suggests Amanda and her young son, Max, spend the summer with her at the St. Regis Resort in Laguna Beach. With the waves right outside her windows and nothing more to worry about than finding the next relaxing thing to do, Amanda should be having the time of her life--and escaping the drama. But instead, she finds herself faced with a kind, older divorcee who showers her with attention... and she discovers that the road to healing is never simple. This is the sometimes funny, sometimes bitter, but always moving story about the mistakes and discoveries a woman makes when her perfect world is turned upside down.

About this title

Review:

"A novel that cries out to be read by the surf with a cocktail and a cabana boy... Anita Hughes is an author of women's literary fiction who delivers sex on the beach without insulting the reader's intelligence." --Thelma Adams, author of Playdate

"With honesty and heart, glamour and grit, Anita Hughes tells the inspiring story of an unusual woman discovering life on her own terms and finally spreading her wings. Loved it." --Melissa Senate, author of The Love Goddess' Cooking School

"Absolutely riveting and brimming with emotion. Monarch Beach charmed me from the very first page." --Jane Porter, author of She's Gone Country

About the Author:

ANITA HUGHES attended UC Berkeley's Masters in Creative Writing Program, and has taught Creative Writing at The Branson School in Ross, California. Hughes has lived at The St. Regis Monarch Beach for six years, where she is at work on her next novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martin's Griffin
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0312643047
• ISBN 13: 9780312643041
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288