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    Summer Secrets

    Written by Jane Green

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    June, 1998. At twenty-seven, Cat Coombs is struggling. She lives in London and parties hard. Discovering the identity of the father sends her into a spiral. She makes mistakes that cost her her only friendships.

    June, 2014. Cat wants to make amends to those she has hurt. What Cat doesn't realize is that her real father's daughters have secrets of their own. Cat must confront dark things and uncover the depths of someone's need for revenge.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateJan 21, 2016
    ISBN9781510019966
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    Summer Secrets
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    Jane Green

    A former feature writer for the Daily Express, Jane Green took a leap of faith when she left in 1996 to freelance and work on her book. She is now the bestselling author of numerous novels including Jemima J, The Beach House, and Falling. Jane lives in Connecticut with her husband and their blended family of six children.

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    • 4/5
      Cat is a journalist in London, divorced, and raising her daughter. Earlier, her mother had revealed a secret about Cat's past -- the identity of her true father. When Cat journeyed to Nantucket to meet him - and her two half sisters - something bad happened, and it traumatized her. Now she's a recovering alcoholic and wondering if she can right the wrongs from her long ago meeting with her estranged family.

      This was an enjoyable read - the story goes back and forth with flashbacks, which helps build up the suspense. Some of the plot is a little outlandish, but it's a fast read and fun. It's a little painful to read sometimes; Cat can certainly be a frustrating character at times, and you just want to shake her. (Also, I don't recommend reading this if you're triggered by reading alcoholism scenes.) However, present day Cat is a relatable character, for the most part, and fun to root for. Her two half sisters, Julia and Ellie, are pieces of work in themselves, and the book presents a fairly realistic look at modern day family and sisterhood. Overall, probably 3.5 stars.
    • 3/5
      Summer Secrets by Jane Green would make for a nice pick for a light read on some heavy topics. The main character Cat is an alcoholic and the reader is able to see her at her all time worst and then several years later as she attempts to remain sober, make amends, and be reaccepted into a family she no longer knows, if she ever truly knew them to begin with. Not having ever experienced the topic first hand I cannot attest to how well Green covered alcoholism, the trials, tribulations, the daily struggles to remain sober. However, I found her writing style to be rather delightful, the characters did little to peak my interest nor did the topic, neither is the fault of the author, merely a personal preference. I think readers who enjoy women’s fiction with leanings towards “chick-lit” will find Summer Secrets to be a far more enjoyable read then this reader.
    • 3/5
      A little too much of the alcholism, but a good, quick beach read with an interesting ending and Nantucket as part of the setting. 3.5 stars.
    • 4/5
      4.5 stars.

      Summer Secrets by Jane Green is an emotionally compelling and heartrending novel about one woman's battle to get sober.

      Catherine "Cat" Coombs love affair with alcohol began when she was a teenager and did not end until she hit rock bottom in her forties. The years in between were a blur of hangovers, blackouts, bad parenting and horrendous drunken decisions. In her twenties, Cat makes her first real attempt at sobriety after meeting Jason Halliwell, another recovering alcoholic, but unfortunately, she is more interested in a romantic relationship with Jason than sobriety. When her mother reveals shocking information about her father, Cat makes a trip to Nantucket to meet her family and her journey ends rather abruptly when she commits a spectacular (and unforgivable) betrayal. After this latest shameful fall from grace, Cat spends several years sobering up only to fall off the wagon again and again. Fast forward to her forties when she finally hits rock bottom after her husband divorces her and wins custody of their thirteen year daughter, Annie, and she finally sobers up for the right reason: herself. She has been doing the heavy lifting necessary to maintain her sobriety when Cat, at long last, must make amends to the two people she has been avoiding: her sisters.

      Cat is, in so many ways, a typical addict. She lies to herself, her friends and her family about her drinking. She is marginally aware that she drinks more than her friends and she is fully convinced she can quit drinking anytime she wants. And she does. But only long enough to "prove" to herself and others that she is firmly in control of her drinking. However, as anyone who has ever been touch by addiction knows, Cat is an alcoholic (albeit a functioning one) and she is nowhere close to being in control of her drinking.

      When Cat is in her late twenties, as she sees her friends moving on from partying as they settle down, marry and have children, she knows she is being left behind, but she is powerless to move forward. After meeting Jason, she makes her first real attempt at gaining sobriety, but she is only going through the motions of going to meetings with him. She does cut back on her drinking, but she does not give it up completely, nor does she really believe what she hears at AA meetings.

      Despite Jason's warnings not to travel to Nantucket until she is further along in the program, Cat is convinced she can handle meeting her father and half-sisters without ruining the visit with her drunken antics. However, once she arrives, she easily convinces herself that she can continue socially drinking with the rest of her family and initially, she manages to limit how much she drinks. But in actuality, Cat is a disaster in waiting and one night, she blacks out and when she wakes up the next morning, her life begins a downward spiral that does not end until her divorce several years later.

      It is very easy to feel all of the raw emotion that Cat experiences and her shame and disgust at her behavior practically leaps off the pages. Equally apparent is Cat's loneliness and despair over her failed marriage but at this point in her recovery, she is unflinchingly honest that her drinking is to blame for her divorce. Her unrelenting pain over the loss of her husband is utterly heartbreaking as is her persistent hope that he will give her another chance. This sorrow is perfectly balanced by the surprising welcome and forgiveness Cat finds in Nantucket but her reconciliation with her sisters is marred by lies and a distressing act of revenge.

      With Summer Secrets, Jane Green presents an remarkably honest portrait of addiction. The devastating effects alcoholism are realistically presented in such a way that it is easy to empathize with Cat and her long journey to sobriety. Although it is not a light-hearted read, Summer Secrets is a riveting novel of hope and redemption and it is one that I highly recommend.
    • 5/5
      Deep and powerful novel about the effects of alcoholism on the individual, their spouses, children and friends. This is an inside reveal of the mind games and emotions of someone trapped in alcoholism and the unintended drama, havoc and destruction that inevitably follows when someone is in denial. The main character, Cat, becomes entrapped by the deception of alcohol at an early age when she uses it as a tool to overcome her shyness and uncomfortable feeling she has about her adolescent face and body. After she discovers the power that vodka and wine has to free her of her negative thoughts, she does not have the will to stop. Cat's mother, Audrey, a depressed defeated woman, and her father, a handsome but aloof man, were unable to help or care for Cat during the tumultuous teenage years. Cat becomes a full blown functional alcoholic with a dysfunctional social life and marriage. Her mother reveal a family secret when she is 29 which catapults Cat to Nantucket, Massachusetts where the bottomless pit of alcoholism goes even deeper still. This is a very good read for anyone who has experienced the effect of alcoholism in their family. Written with sensitivity, truth, understanding and redemption.
    • 3/5
      Cat Coombs first introduction to booze was in high school when her addiction to booze and frequent blackouts began by her desire to fit in with the crowd. She has struggled with addiction her whole life, always turning to alcohol for comfort, and ruining so many important relationships along the way. The secrets began a long time ago when Cat’s mom, Audrey, spent a summer on Nantucket with her Aunt Judith. “As the years pass, Cat grows into her forties, a struggling single mother, coping with sobriety.” Cat travels to Nantucket herself in attempts to make amends with some of the people she hurt along the way as a step in her AA program. There were several plot twists along the way that keep the book interesting. This book was full of family drama with lovely Nantucket as the back drop. This one is perfect for your beach bag.
    • 3/5
      I've heard addicts emotional growth stops when they become an addict. So it is realist that Cat who begin drinking as a teenager has the emotional maturity of a teenager.It was no surprise that Julie turned out not to be as wonderful as Cat thought.
    • 4/5
      I received this ARC from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
      This was my first Jane Green novel and now that I have read one, I think I can say for sure that I will be adding her other books to my TBR list.  Cat, the main character, is an alcoholic struggling with the way her life has turned out.  In the beginning she is fairly recently divorced and trying to come to terms with her new life and remembering how she got to this point.  Then the author takes us back in time and begins revealing the events that led Cat to where she is now.  Although Cat could be a little annoying, it was hard not to feel for her and want her to be able to resolve everything that went wrong in her life.  Growing up in a home where the man she thinks is her father treats her as though she is second rate can definitely work to tear a girl down.  All of the drama that comes with being an alcoholic really moves this story forward, especially when she finds out she has a long lost family she never knew about.  With a shocking twist near the end, the author easily held my attention throughout the entire novel.  I really enjoyed reading this book.
    • 4/5
      Jane Green is probably one of my favorite authors. Every time I read about Nantucket I want to get on the internet and rent a cute little cottage on the water. What a way to spend your summer. This book is about Cat who has a family history of drinking. She won't admit she has an addiction problem until several things happen in her life that are so devastating that it brings her to rock bottom. She has to lose everything before she can rebuild her life and rebuild her relationship with Jason, the love of her life. I don't want to give too much way so pick this up. It's a great summer beach read that will entertain you, make you smile and also make you sad.
    • 3/5
      Well, you know what to expect from Jane Green, and she delivers more of the same. About 100 pages from the end, I pretty much predicted what was going to happen, and I don't care for that. If you want a chick-lit book to read on the beach, this would be it. So-so.
    • 3/5
      An enjoyable story about a woman who spent her youth in the throws of alcoholism and as an older adult must make amends to those she hurt in her earlier years. This takes Cat and her teenage daughter from London to Nantucket, where Cat must track down her American half-sisters and attempt to repair a relationship damaged during a summer vacation years previously. Definitely chit lit, but a good story and nice, warm and fuzzy book to read for the summer.
    • 4/5
      Not a light summer read by any means, this book takes the reader on a journey through the many stages of alcoholism, from the early days to life as a recovering alcoholic. Painful at times, it ultimately leaves us with a message that there is hope through working and living a 12-step program.
    • 4/5
      Although I love Jane Green's books, this was not one of my top favorites of hers---even though it was fascinating to find out so much about alcohol problems on so many levels as well as the effectiveness of AA, it was just a little too much about just that, drinking, more than I really wanted to know. Yes, tying things up in a bow is always a little of a relief but...it came about almost too fast.
    • 4/5
      A little predictable, especially towards the end, but enjoyable nonetheless. It's well written and I really liked Cat's character.
    • 1/5
      You've got to be kidding me!!! I read the entire book - doggedly to the end. However, had I known the main character was going to sum up the entire 300 pages before it into one rant at an AA Meeting during the 2nd to last chapter - I certainly wouldn't have wasted my time. Don't waste yours! Just read the last couple chapters - its really all you need. Plus - remember, life is a fairy tale according to Jane.
    • 4/5
      Good summer read.
    • 2/5
      I loved the setting for this book, Nantucket and London, and the characters were very well played but three hundred pages of why not to be an alcoholic and the meetings and the falling off the wagon and getting back on the wagon just kinda blew my mind. The quote "Life is where you look" " I mean look for the bad, you'll find more of the bad, look for the good, you'll find more of the good." is great and I can't find anything else to say about this read.
    • 3/5
      Jane Green is one of the founding mothers of the Chick-Lit genre. I have read several of her books prior to this one and enjoyed them, but this one was not my favorite. I didn’t hate this book and I read it in record time, it just wasn’t my fav of the 17 books she has penned.There have been lots of reviews on this one and rather than rehash the plot in great detail, I will just highlight what I liked and didn’t like.Warning: There will be references to some scenes with spoilers. The main character is an alcoholic named Cat. You read about her life and family situations from childhood through her 40s. The time period is roughly 1998 to present day but the story isn’t told in linear fashion. Most of the story takes places in England but you have flashbacks to Cat’s time spent in Nantucket. She was there to meet family - a group of family members she didn’t know she had until she was an adult. Once there, she fell back into her partying lifestyle and caused great hurt and embarrassment. The amount of time spent explaining alcoholism and AA meetings had me wondering if Jane Green wasn’t writing from personal experience. It’s very detailed and she made Cat’s struggle so real to me that it’s either genius on the writer’s part or a pouring out of one’s own crisis. (And no, I don’t think Jane Green is identical to Cat.) While the alcoholic struggles and the meetings had some interest to me, it was just about the entire focus of the book. Her other books are described as beach reads but I wouldn’t classify this one as such.What grabbed me about this book was the jacket and promo talking about a 20 something English lady (Cat) who had a career in journalism. She was a partying girl but kept her wits about her despite some heavy drinking. I wasn’t sure where it would go from there but I hoped for more scenes in London. Also I wish her mother’s character had been fleshed out more, she seemed very interesting.
    • 5/5
      Jane Green scores again. This book,as I have come to expect from her, is fantastic. Reading it was very emotional, she is right in the heart of the life of a woman that's an alcoholic. I felt overwhelming sadness of all the things Cat missed as a result of her drinking, things she couldn't undo, relationships she messed up, chances she will never have. Despite her behaviour, I liked Cat. She owns her past, mistakes she made and she's strong enough to move on and fix things.One of the steps of a recovering alcoholic is to make amends with people hurt as a result of the alcoholic's drinking behaviour. Cat takes her daughter and a friend back to Nantucket where she needs to make amends to the estranged family she met only once, where her behaviour resulted in tragic events. While I don't always agree with this step, sometimes I feel that it's a bit of a selfish act, it is about what the recovering alcoholic needs without much thought to the impact and needs of the person that was wronged, I so understand that it is a necessary step to recovering. This is the second book I have recently read taking place in Nantucket. The description and life there really makes me want to go there, it seemed for a little while, I actually did. This book is about forgiveness and overcoming life's battles. While forgiveness of others is important, sometimes we need to forgive ourselves more and learn to move on and live past our regrets. Thanks Jane. You have again written a moving, relevant, awesome book that I didn't want to put down.
    • 4/5
      It's the late 1990s and Catherine "Cat" Coombs is no different from all of the other twenty-somethings, or so she thinks. It's perfectly normal, in her mind, to spend her afternoons and evenings with lots of liquid libation. It's perfectly normal to black-out after imbibing a bit much. It's perfect normal to wake up in bed with your newly discovered half-sister's boyfriend. Wait . . . what?! This isn't normal behavior, but Cat talks herself into believing that her drinking binges are well within the range of normal, until she wakes up naked with her sister's boyfriend in bed beside her.Flash forward sixteen years and Cat has finally become sober. She knows that she's a recovering alcoholic and that she'll always be a recovering alcoholic. Rock bottom for her was when her husband, the love of her life, left her and took their daughter with him. Cat knows that she has to take it one day at a time, and she has taken great strides in doing the program, or AA. Her last major hurdle is making amends with her half-sisters across the pond. Is it possible for someone to forgive the unforgivable or is Cat setting simply setting herself up for disaster?I'm sure the big question you're asking is did I enjoy reading Summer Secrets? The answer is a resounding YES! I know I've said it before, but this book pulled me in from the beginning and I read it in one sitting over one afternoon. Okay, I took a small break to talk to my mother on the phone for a few minutes, but that was the only interruption I allowed (it was my elderly mother people; I couldn't ignore her phone call). Ms. Green has the amazing ability to create characters and situations that are incredibly realistic and wholly believable. I may not be a recovering alcoholic, but I could empathize with Cat and her problems. I don't have any sisters and have never slept (drunk or otherwise) with anyone else's significant other, but I could relate to the horror of the situation. Younger Cat romanticized her life and the situations around her; older Cat may have periodic romantic daydreams but deals with reality, no matter how much it hurts. Summer Secrets is an amazing story about self-discovery, recovery, and forgiveness. This story incorporates personal recovery with family drama, teen drama, family secrets, and much more set in scenic Nantucket, Massachusetts and London, England. I've used the term "hopeful-ever-after" about other books and Summer Secrets is just that . . . a story about hope for a better tomorrow while dealing with today. If you haven't read any books by Ms. Green, then grab a copy of Summer Secrets soon, as this is the perfect story for a lazy summer afternoon. I look forward to reading more from this author in the future, and something tells me I'll probably be rereading Summer Secrets soon (yes, it was that good!).
    • 4/5
      Alcoholism is an illness. It occurs across race, class, and gender. It is influenced by both nature and nurture, or more properly genetics and environment. The World Health Organization estimates that just over 4% of the world's population older than 15 are alcoholics. As large a number as that works out to be, alcoholics don't only just affect themselves but they affect all the loved ones around them so the number of people touched by this difficult and pervasive disease is exponentially higher than just 4%. And it is incredibly difficult for an alcoholic to get and stay sober as they have to confront all the things that drove them to cope with alcohol in the first place and to do it without the long term crutch they are working to beat. Such a weighty and difficult topic is not one that readers often come across in books touted as summer beach reads, in part perhaps because the topic itself is sobering but also because it is hard to do the damage it causes justice. But the impact alcoholism has on families and relationships actually makes it perfect for examination in family dynamics stories like Jane Green's newest novel, Summer Secrets. Cat is a freelance writer living in London. She's a divorced, single mother who works everyday to maintain her hard-won sobriety. As she walks the 12 step program, she knows that she must make amends to those she's hurt through her drinking starting with the ex-husband she still loves, her daughter, and her mother. But there's another part of her family to whom she must atone as well and dredging up the memory of the unforgivable thing she did to them makes this set of apologies particularly difficult. After Cat's emotionally cold and unloving father dies, her mother, witnessing yet another aftermath of Cat's hard partying and drinking lifestyle, tells Cat that the man she thought was her father was not. Her father was an artist on Nantucket with whom her mother had a brief fling one summer and that one of the reasons she didn't leave her husband for him was because of his excessive drinking, the same troubling drinking that she now sees in her daughter. All Cat can focus on, though, is that she has a father and two younger half sisters, Ellie and Julia, she never knew about and she is eager to meet them. Despite her fledgling attempt to get sober for Jason, the wonderful man she's met in London, when she goes to Nantucket to meet her other family, she slides back into social drinking first and ultimately into excess, blacking out and committing an unforgivable act that estranges her from the family she's just found. The novel jumps between several different times in Cat's life and also includes her mother's summer on Nantucket as well. Current day Cat must face the demons of her past in order to overcome them, remembering the devastation she left in her wake not only in Nantucket that summer but also in her marriage and her daughter's young life. She must examine the reasons she has had in the past for giving up drinking and why this time is different for her, why she can't go back to burying herself deep in a bottle of vodka, why alcohol can never again be her coping mechanism. Most of all, if she intends to live a sober life, she must apologize for and own her past actions. And so she, her daughter, and her gay best friend Sam, make the pilgrimage to Nantucket so that Cat can say she's sorry. Green has done a good job capturing the pain of the alcoholic and of those around the alcoholic. She makes Cat go through the hard challenges accompanying sobriety, makes her suffer the relapses and the wish to change for all the wrong reasons, and has her hit rock bottom. The cast of secondary characters illustrate very clearly many of the different sorts of reactions people have to their alcoholic loved one, from Cat's mother's worry for her, to husband Jason's resigned sadness over her inability to change which drives him to divorce, from half-sister Ellie's anger and fury, to friend Sam's partial understanding while still believing that it isn't quite as bad as all that. But ultimately the focus is on Cat and her own honest reactions to her past drinking, the pain she's caused others, and the way forward. This is very definitely a family drama but one complicated by alcohol and the havoc it wreaks in so many lives. It is also a story of forgiveness, both from others but also forgiving and accepting yourself regardless of the past, as Cat must learn to do. The ending was a bit tidy and convenient compared to what came before it but, in general, it was a fast and engrossing read. It's a little weighty for a summer beach read, but don't let that dissuade you from tucking it into your beach bag.
    • 3/5
      I just finished Summer Secrets by Jane Green. This book bounces between 1998 and 2014 to tell the story. Catherine “Cat” Coombs has been drinking since she discovered vodka at age fourteen. Her father was nasty, distant (cold), controlling, and a bully. Her mother, Audrey hid from her husband by staying in bed during much of Cat’s adolescence. Alcohol made Cat feel better about herself and life.Fast forward to 1998 and Cat is still drinking every night. Once Cat starts drinking she does not stop. She usually passes out sometime during the night. One morning she wakes up in an apartment with a stranger. Cat is very lucky that Jason is a nice stranger. Jason is a recovering alcoholic. Jason and Cat’s mother convince her to quit drinking. Cat is doing well until she goes to America to meet her biological father, Brooks Mayhew. Cat meets Brooks and his two daughters in Nantucket. Brooks and his younger daughter, Julia drink all the time and Cat joins in. The summer comes to an abrupt halt when Cat wakes up one morning with Julia’s boyfriend naked in her bed.Cat returns home and gets sober for a while. She even gets married and has a daughter. Cat does not stay sober for long. It is a constant battle for her. Cat will have to lose everything she holds dear before she decides to get help. Then comes the ninth step. Amends is the ninth step. Cat will have to go see her long lost sisters in America to make amends. Will Cat be able to get forgiveness for past sins while staying sober?I give Summer Secrets 3 out of 5 stars. I found Summer Secrets very depressing. This book left me feeling sad when I had finished reading it. The basic story was good as well as the writing, but I felt it was something that had been done before. It is not the type of book I would want to read on summer vacation (or if I was feeling down).I received a complimentary copy of Summer Secrets in exchange for an honest review. The review and opinions expressed are my own.
    • 5/5
      A special thank you to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. O U T S T A N D I N G ! Master storyteller Jane Green delivers yet another powerful and gripping novel (two winners in one year-impressive). Both, off the charts. A riveting, insightful, emotional and thought-provoking page-turner with some highly-charged topics.SUMMER SECRETS is a "JDC Must Read" and should be at the top of your reading list for summer....Green, once again is at the "top of her game." Complete review to follow-currently traveling.