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Beach Girls
by Luanne Rice
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Bantam (2004-08-03)
ISBN: 0553587242
EAN: 9780553587241
Dewy Decimal #: 813.54
Mass Market Paperback: 464 pages
Release Date: 2004-08-03
SKU: 04391
Condition: Collectible: Good Fi
Comments: First edition, some pages dog-eared but otherwise in good condition
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Luanne Rice is a rarity among novelists today; she's a true storyteller. Her unique ability to weave together the bonds of love and family with the challenges and rewards of everyday life has garnered her eight consecutive top-ten New York Times bestselling paperbacks. With Beach Girls, Luanne Rice returns to the place that she was born to write about—the Connecticut shore—to tell a story about a family of women whose lives encompass three generations, their histories intertwined with that of the mystic coastal town that has forever bound them to one another.
Beach Girls explores the complex and contradictory territories of love, family and friendship. Luanne Rice's sensuous prose and unforgettably rich and textured characters guide us toward a truth that lies within and sometimes beyond our dreams—an enduring strength that we all must embrace to find our way home and into the hearts of those we cherish most. Beach Girls is an enthralling novel of haunting beauty that will resonate long after the final page is turned.
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Customer Reviews
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From S. Krishna's Books
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-09-09
Emma, Maddie and Stevie were the best of friends growing up. Calling themselves "beach girls," they spent their summers together at Hubbard's Point in Connecticut every year until they were grown and went their separate ways. Now, Stevie is the only one left at Hubbard's Point. A reclusive author, she has lost touch with her other two dear friends and thinks the relationships are lost forever until, one day, she meets Nell.
Nell is a nine-year-old girl whose father has brought her to Hubbard's Point to help heal from the death of her mother, Emma, who died in a car crash. Even worse, Nell's father blames her aunt Maddie for the accident, since Maddie was in the car with Emma.
In classic Luanne Rice fashion, Nell befriends Stevie and helps bring all the characters together. Truths come to light and old wounds heal in this romantic novel.
I did enjoy this novel, though I only read it because I knew that Last Kiss was being released this summer, and it involved characters from Beach Girls. Honestly, there isn't much else to say about it - if you enjoy Luanne Rice, you will enjoy this book. If you don't, then you won't - can't get much more simple than that!
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Love this book!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-05-19
I can read this book over and over and never get tired of it!!
The relationship between the 3 best friends was touching and that's just the beginning of it! The way that true love and happiness takes its course opens all of our eyes to what a small world this is. It's just funny how the love of one couple can cause second thoughts about hate for someone else. Maddie deserved to be loved and never hated, and Stevie opened Jacks eyes to that. This whole romance, the love between Stevie and Jack, THe forgiveness of Maddie, was all due to the curiosity of a little girl on a search for who her mom really was. If it weren't for little Nell, Jack, Stevie, and Maddie's lives wouldn't have been what they were meant to be!
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Totally predictable...
Rating  (3)
Date: 2006-12-10
As girls, Stevie Moore, Emma Lincoln and Maddie Kilvert lived for the beach. Every summer, the three would reunite, and spend all their time swimming, flirting and being the titular "beach girls."
But as they entered adulthood, they lost touch. Now Emma's nine-year-old daughter, Nell, has come to spend the summer at Hubbard's Point beach...still grappling with the huge hole Emma's death a year earlier left within her. She seeks Stevie, her mom's friend who still lives at Hubbard's Point, and begins a friendship with the reclusive artist who needs Nell and her dad Jack as much as they need her.
Somewhere in the first few chapters, it's more than apparent as to how this story will end. And, alas, that's exactly how it DOES end. So, if you're looking for something deep and thought-provoking, this book clearly isn't it. However, it is a quick, fun read -- perhaps if you were actually wiling away a few hours on a beach. Also, Rice interweaves characters from her previous book, "The Perfect Summer," which is always fun to see happen, as Nell becomes friends with youngest McCabe daughter Peggy.
You can give this book a try...just don't set too much hope in it.
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How can a bond so strong ever end?
Rating (3)
Date: 2006-08-30
Kind of reminds me of friendship that I thought would never end-how could they when we couldn't even live a day w/o seeing or talking to each other. This is a sweet story of 3 close girl friends who end up going separate ways only to be brought back to each other's lives one way or another. It was pretty deep at times, but shallow at others. I would say to read it and enjoy but not expect it to carry you away. There are other LR books with more depth to them.
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Ever Dependable Luanne
Rating (4)
Date: 2006-07-29
This was a book with a different twist. Would you relive part of your life? As always Luanne Rice can be counted on to weave a great story for the reader. I have never read a Rice Book that I would not recoment to another reader. In fact as soon as I finished Beach Girls, I passed my copy on to a friend with instructions to pass it on to someone else when she was done.
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