High Season: A Novel - Hardcover

Advance praise for The High Season

"Judy Blundell wields words like an oyster knife in this shimmering story of art, money, and celebrity. This is wicked summer fun."--Helen Simonson, New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Before the War

"The High Season is touching, funny, and emotionally precise, recognizable yet full of surprises. Change comes to Orient Point and the lives of the people who live there like a hurricane. Then a hurricane comes, too! Forget the Hamptons. Blundell's North Shores is where the real drama--and fun--blows in."--Cathleen Schine, New York Times bestselling author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport

"The High Season is an au courant page-turner about a family on Long Island's North Fork who rent out their oceanfront home to the wealthy, as they struggle to hold on to it for future generations. The beating heart of this story is Ruthie, middle-aged and at a crossroads, wondering if her every decision, personal and professional, has been a mistake. You will revel in the human drama and comedy of this skillfully told tale. Wise, funny and insightful, Judy Blundell tells the story of one woman that says something about all of us, our aspirations, and the delicate state of the American dream."--Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author of Kiss Carlo

"Judy Blundell's The High Season is a smart, poignant, witty novel about a family's life-changing summer on Long Island's North Fork. It has a churning plot redolent of those great women's movies from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, and a winning cast of complicated characters, variously brimming with spirit, brains, humor, cowardice, duplicity, evil, charm, and generosity."--Susan Rieger, author of The Heirs

"I tore through this book with the sort of obsessive speed that makes you forget about things like eating, and sleeping. On top of tackling tough issues like wealth, family, and class, Judy Blundell treats her characters--be they mothers or daughters, socialites or artists--with more honesty and heart than any writer I know. This isn't a book that you'll leave on some beach on Long Island's North Fork--this is a book you'll be talking about for a long time to come."--Grant Ginder, author of The People We Hate at the Wedding

"The High Season by Judy Blundell is a wickedly good read, hilarious, poignant, and insightful, with a breathtaking finale. If you've ever served on a committee, or lived in a resort town, or had friends or parents or children or an infuriating spouse, you will love this book. I did!" --Nancy Thayer, New York Times bestselling author of A Nantucket Wedding

Judy Blundell is a New York Times bestselling author. Her novel What I Saw and How I Lied won the 2008 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. The High Season is her first novel for adults. She lives on Long Island with her husband and daughter.