Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    The Tailgate: An Original Story
    Unavailable
    The Tailgate: An Original Story
    Unavailable
    The Tailgate: An Original Story
    Audiobook1 hour

    The Tailgate: An Original Story

    Written by Elin Hilderbrand

    Narrated by Erin Bennett

    4/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this audiobook

    A digital original short story about young lovers at separate colleges, exploring the early years of the central relationship in Elin Hilderbrand's forthcoming novel, The Matchmaker.

    Clendenin Hughes first kissed Dabney Kimball during a Nantucket snowstorm freshman year of high school. Ever since that moment - God, the rush, the chemistry! - Dabney has known that she and Clen are an unsplittable unit - essentially the same person in two different bodies.

    Of course, with Dabney now at Harvard and Clen at Yale, those bodies are 140 miles apart. And traveling is a serious challenge for Dabney, for reasons she'd prefer not to discuss, reasons having to do with her mother (or lack thereof). But with the big Harvard-Yale game coming up, Dabney is determined to make the trek to New Haven to see Clen. She's even borrowed a sexy black outfit from a classmate down the hall.

    But when she arrives at the tailgate to see sparks flying between Clen and Jocelyn, a girl with dark blue eyes and luscious black hair, Dabney fears the collapse of a bond she has never questioned before, a bond so important that she'll be lost without it. A stirring portrait of young love at a crossroads, THE TAILGATE introduces two irresistible characters and invites us into a world we don't want to leave. To learn the fates of Dabney and Clen, read Elin Hilderbrand's forthcoming novel, The Matchmaker.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateMay 6, 2014
    ISBN9781478955351
    Unavailable
    The Tailgate: An Original Story
    Author

    Elin Hilderbrand

    Elin Hilderbrand lives on Nantucket, has three children and is the author of 27 novels, including SUMMER OF ‘69.  Elin met Dottie in the spring of 2017 at the annual Post & Courier luncheon in Charleston and Elin says, “It was love at first sight.” The two authors proceeded to meet on Nantucket every chance they got and they texted and emailed non-stop. They dreamed of doing a joint cooking show called “Cook the Books,” where they would invite a third author on to make a signature dish for each episode. They also talked about a cookbook called “The Southern Belle and the Gray Lady.” Elin’s summer of 2020 novel, 28 Summers, is dedicated to Dottie and Dottie makes a cameo appearance in Elin’s summer of 2021 novel, Golden Girl. “I will never again have a writer friend like Dottie,” Elin says. “Those of you who knew her understand what I mean, and those of you who didn’t will just have to trust me. They broke the mold.”

    More audiobooks from Elin Hilderbrand

    Related to The Tailgate

    Related audiobooks

    Marriage & Divorce For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Book Of Love

      Feb 21, 2024

      The Book Of Love
      1 min read

    • Article

      Best Books

      Feb 8, 2022

      Best Books
      1 min read

    • Article

      Book CLUB

      Jun 28, 2022

      Book CLUB
      1 min read

    • Article

      Best Books

      Dec 13, 2022

      by Lindsey Kelk (£14.99, Harper Collins, HB) From the author of the I Heart series comes another crowd-pleaser with a concept – what if it was Christmas every day? For newly single Gwen, who is keen to escape her job, a family Christmas could be jus

      1 min read

    • Article

      ‘The Nickel Boys’ Reckons With A Legacy Of Racism And Abuse

      Jul 16, 2019

      Colson Whitehead's novel tells a story of two black teenagers in a corrupt reform school and the resilience they mustered in the face of hate.

      3 min read

    • Article

      Winter Warmers

      Jun 23, 2023

      BY BETH O’LEARY QUERCUS Reading a Beth O’Leary book is like connecting with an old friend. One of those friends with whom you sit on your couch in your comfiest clothes and get a story worth listening to that will make you laugh and feel sad and eve

      3 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Jul 8, 2020

      by Alex North (£12.99, HB, Michael Joseph) Paul Adams has kept away from his home village for 25 years, since his school friend Charlie brutally stabbed a classmate to death before going missing. But when his mother suffers a fall, he knows that the

      1 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Feb 17, 2023

      Books
      4 min read

    • Article

      Books To Enjoy With Your Family

      Dec 9, 2018

      Books To Enjoy With Your Family
      2 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Jan 26, 2022

      A trio of perspectives are woven together in this emotionally gripping story, revealing the Walsh Family in crisis. Connor is traumatised by the guilt of past events; Aiden is trapped in a mortifying web of deceit; and Lucy is falling apart at the se

      1 min read

    • Article

      Books Of The Month

      Sep 29, 2023

      By Craig Barr-Green and Francis Martin Gina isn’t happy with hot, smelly school – and now the story of Red Riding Hood has three big mistakes in it. It’s up to Gina to visit fairytale land and put them right in this warm, engaging picture book with a

      2 min read

    • Article

      ‘I Was A Bad Child Actor. Extremely Bad’: Emma Cline On The Follow Up To Her Hit Novel The Girls

      May 13, 2023

      Emma Cline is a writer who seemed to hit her stride straight out of the gate. Her bestselling 2016 debut The Girls, which told the story of a Manson family-type cult, was praised for its canny structure, moving seamlessly between time frames, and for

      8 min read

    • Article

      'Curlfriends: New In Town' Reminds Us That There Can Be Positives Of Middle School

      Oct 13, 2023

      The first volume in author-artist Sharee Miller's debut YA graphic novel series reminds us of the many possibilities and excitements interwoven within the challenging years of early teenagerhood.

      3 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Nov 23, 2022

      by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan (£16.99, HB, Hodder) Calling fans of Jodi Picoult or Jennifer Finney Boylan – the celebrated authors have collaborated to pen this unique novel together. Now free from an abusive relationship, beekeeper Oli

      2 min read

    • Article

      Books Of The Month

      Mar 31, 2023

      By Farhana Islam, illustrated by Nabila Adani When Noor asks the women in her family why they wear hijabs, no one will tell her – until her ammu gives her the answers. Lively and full of fun, this picture book is steeped in love and pride. By Kate Re

      2 min read

    • Article

      Soap Highlights

      Nov 22, 2020

      Soap Highlights
      2 min read

    • Article

      A Question Of Trust

      Apr 11, 2021

      On the “road to nowhere” in rural Pennsylvania, at the edge of daylight, the time when the hills “become shadows, the trees already dark silhouettes”, a mother drives her car, furiously, erratically. Also in the car are her five children, who are nag

      1 min read

    • Article

      Emergency Tbc

      Apr 29, 2022

      Emergency Tbc
      2 min read

    • Article

      Joy Of Reading

      Dec 10, 2021

      Wanda is excited to be going to the hair salon and knows exactly which hairdo she wants – but the hair stylist insists on trying to straighten her hair. The white chemical she applies stings like crazy but when Wanda complains, she’s told that she ne

      4 min read

    • Article

      All Our Hidden Gifts

      May 28, 2021

      All Our Hidden Gifts
      4 min read

    Reviews for The Tailgate

    4/5

    13 ratings2 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      The Tailgate by Elin HildenbrandLove this author and realized I had not read this one. Daphne and Clen were high school sweethearts.Now that they are at college they don't get to see each other so often. She often catches the ferry on Friday nights to return to the island for the weekend when Clen wanted to spend time with her.Last year he had shown up with his friends at her college, for the football game. This year she hopes to surprise him by showing up at his college, for the game.She realizes he's changed so much as he wrestles with the guys on the yard and isn't shaving.She is able to take on her fear head on by going to the game, with her friend....and now he's got plans to return to his journalist job after the game and not go on their dinner date.Game is going well til others come between them and Daphne wonders about Clen and his new friends....til she discovers what's going on and she knows she has a choice to make: stay or go.This is the pre story to The Matchmaker by the same author where their story continues... Love the aura she sees around others who are dating=-she can pair them up fr a lifetime...Excerpt of The Matchmaker is included.I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
    • 3/5
      Short stories can be enjoyable, this one was only okay for me, way too short. I know it's a little novella as a prequel to "the matchmaker" but it was like reading only the first few chapters of a novel, it didn't go anywhere. It was interesting and well written enough and I really loved the last book of hers I just read so I will definitely be reading "the matchmaker".