{"product_id":"the-guest-book-9780241986110","title":"The Guest Book","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Powerful and provocative'' Paula McLain\u003cbr\u003e''Beautiful, engrossing, heart-breaking'' Rachel Rhys\u003cbr\u003e''Monumental in a way that few novels dare attempt'' Washington Post  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Miltons are a powerful old New York family - the kind of family that used to run the world. And in 1935, they still do. Kitty and Ogden Milton seem to have it all: an elegant apartment on the Upper East Side, two beautiful little boys, a love everyone envies. When a tragedy befalls them, Ogden comforts Kitty the only way he knows how - they go sailing, picnic on a small island off the coast of Maine, and buy it. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor generations the Miltons of Crockett Island revel in a place that is entirely their own. But it''s 1959, and the world is changing: Ogden''s firm hire a Jewish man, Len Levy, who earns the admiration of not only his boss, but his boss''s beautiful young daughter. When Len and his friend visit the island, the Milton''s principles and prejudic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThought-provoking and propulsive...Welcome to old money, new heartbreak and big secrets\u003c\/b\u003e * New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI was totally swept away by this beautiful, engrossing, ultimately heartbreaking family saga\u003c\/b\u003e -- Rachel Rhys, author of 'Dangerous Crossing' and 'Fatal Inheritance'\u003cbr\u003eSarah Blake's \u003cb\u003epowerful, beautifully written story\u003c\/b\u003e portrays a couple's secret choices that come to haunt succeeding generations. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guest Book\u003c\/i\u003e is richly atmospheric and morally compelling in a way that stirs the mind long after the last page. \u003c\/b\u003e -- Nancy Horan, author of 'Loving Frank' and 'Under the Wide and Starry Sky'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI loved\u003ci\u003e The Guest Book\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003eSarah Blake has managed the extraordinary feat of writing both an intimate family saga and an ambitious excavation of the subterranean currents of race, class, and power that have shaped America. This is a vivid, transporting novel, written by a master conjuror of time and place. -- Jessica Shattuck, New York Times bestselling author of 'The Women in the Castle'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guest Book\u003c\/i\u003e is not only an exploration of the past, but a prophecy of the future\u003c\/b\u003e. It illuminates a lost world with a brilliance that is neither nostalgic nor sentimental as it leads its characters, as well as the reader, to new and disturbing discoveries about prejudice and privilege. Sarah Blake's understanding of private life at a certain time in America and within a certain class gives us an incisive history of manners and morals, with the understanding that the survival of the spirit, no matter the time, depends upon endurance, tolerance, and solitary grief. -- Susanna Moore, author of 'The Life of Objects'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Blake is such a beautiful writer she can make any world shimmer, but The Guest Book is particularly fascinating. \u003c\/b\u003eAn intergenerational exploration of memory, identity, love, and family loyalty, of what it costs to inherit a name, a place, and a difficult alignment with history. \u003cb\u003ePowerful and provocative storytelling.  \u003c\/b\u003e -- Paula McLain, bestselling author of 'The Paris Wife'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEpic and sweeping, without ever leaving behind the personal and profound, \u003ci\u003eThe Guest Book\u003c\/i\u003e is a reminder of what novels do better than anything else.\u003c\/b\u003e Without losing their specificity, three generations of Milton women reveal something about every family, the secrets and unspoken truths that color everything that happens to us. \u003cb\u003eThis is a book you will be dying to talk to someone about\u003c\/b\u003e -- Arthur Phillips, author of 'The Tragedy of Arthur' and 'Prague'\u003cbr\u003eBeautifully crafted....The Milton family history, rife with secrets and moral failings, including a deep-seated bigotry, is a timely tale of America itself. \u003cb\u003eAn enveloping and moving page-turner\u003c\/b\u003e * People, Book of the Week *\u003cbr\u003eThe story of the Miltons engages not just with history and politics, but with the poetry of the physical world. This novel sets out to be more than a juicy family saga?it aims to depict the moral evolution of a part of American society. Its convincing characters and muscular narrative succeed on both counts * Kirkus Reviews, starred review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis powerful family saga...is potent and mesmerizing\u003c\/b\u003e * Publishers Weekly *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733431398743,"sku":"9780241986110","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241986110.jpg?v=1720000049","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-guest-book-9780241986110","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}