Blog Tour and Giveaway: Montauk

Guys, if you know me, you know I love my historical beach reads. When I heard about the debut novel Montauk by Nicola Harrison, I knew I had to get a copy. I've had my eye on it for awhile now and I also featured it  as one of the books I plan on reading this month.   Montauk truly sounds like the perfect beach read (I mean look at that cover!) and I love the setting of Long Island in the 1930s. 

I have partnered with St. Martin's to host a giveaway as part of the Montauk blog tour.  One lucky US reader will win a copy of Montauk; please refer to my giveaway rules.  

About the book: 

"Montauk, Long Island, 1938.   For three months, this humble fishing village will serve as the playground for New York City’s wealthy elite. Beatrice Bordeaux was looking forward to a summer of reigniting the passion between her and her husband, Harry. Instead, tasked with furthering his investment interest in Montauk as a resort destination, she learns she’ll be spending twelve weeks sequestered with the high society wives at The Montauk Manor—a two-hundred room seaside hotel—while Harry pursues other interests in the city.   College educated, but raised a modest country girl in Pennsylvania, Bea has never felt fully comfortable among these privileged women, whose days are devoted not to their children but to leisure activities and charities that seemingly benefit no one but themselves. She longs to be a mother herself, as well as a loving wife, but after five years of marriage she remains childless while Harry is increasingly remote and distracted. Despite lavish parties at the Manor and the Yacht Club, Bea is lost and lonely and befriends the manor’s laundress whose work ethic and family life stir memories of who she once was.   As she drifts further from the society women and their preoccupations and closer toward Montauk’s natural beauty and community spirit, Bea finds herself drawn to a man nothing like her husband –stoic, plain spoken and enigmatic. Inspiring a strength and courage she had almost forgotten, his presence forces her to face a haunting tragedy of her past and question her future.   Desperate to embrace moments of happiness, no matter how fleeting, she soon discovers that such moments may be all she has, when fates conspire to tear her world apart…"

Do you want to learn more about Montauk? Check out Nicola Harrison's website here and you can find her on Twitter as well.  Montauk is out now, so if you want to get your hands on a copy, you can  at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indie Bound and Powell's.  Thanks again to St. Martin's for having me be a part of the blog tour.

What do you guys think of Montauk? Is it on your TBR list this summer? Do you love historical beach reads?  Let me know your thoughts in the comments.

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