The Five-Star Weekend

By: Elin Hilderbrand

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hotel Nantucket: After tragedy strikes, Hollis Shaw gathers four friends from different stages in her life to spend an unforgettable weekend on Nantucket, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hotel Nantucket.

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 hap- pens, has many secrets.

The Five-Star Weekend is a surprising and captivating story about friendship, love, and self-discovery set on Nantucket. It will be a weekend like no other.

©2023 Elin Hilderbrand (P)2023 Little, Brown & Company

A Summer Book to Remember

Yes… just… yes!
This book will make you look back in your life and wish you had a weekend with your favorite people. It is the perfect combination hopeful and reminiscent. It’s not just a love story, but a friendship story, and self love story. Great nods to other stories and characters in the ‘tuk’ 😂

I summer in Nantucket!

Okay, well I really don’t…but I feel like I do because I read Elin’s latest each summer! Again, this one did not disappoint… and I saw a little of myself in each of the 5 stars.

Excellent read

Enjoyed the premise of this story. The intricate relationships of how they intertwined and connected these women together was just wonderful. Thoroughly recommend this book. One of Elin’s best.

Elon hilderbrand does it again!

Loved this story. Great development of all 5 “star” women in Nantucket scene. Couldn’t get enough of this story.

Loved it!

A great summer read once again this year!

Interesting characters and always the wonderful Nantucket charm.

Great Book

Elin does it again! Another great book!
How every book is based in Nantucket but every book is so different! Always a great read!

Loved it!!

Hildebrand’s novels are always a treat! One day I will get to Nantucket for a visit!

Easy read

Loved the descriptive details, the story line, kind of random how the dog’s thoughts were thrown in there near the end. I wasn’t on the edge of my seat but curious how things would end up.

Friendships are amazing and unique.

Loved the energy of being the pivoting person of captivating emotions of friends in your circle with various perspectives.

Loved it!

Listened in my car…made my drive more interesting. There were moments I didn’t want to get out because I was captivated.