The Hotel Nantucket charmed me with its unique storyline - as if it was straight out of a season of Bravo’s Below Deck (but set at a hotel rather than on a yacht), Elin’s trademark Nantucket settings, pop culture references, and food descriptions that make your mouth water. (It’s a bid hard to keep track of all the characters and guests, so take note!)Īs the Summer heats up, so does the gossip of its hauntings, filling the rooms with excited guests for the entire season, as the staff awaits word of their Hotel Confidential review. sultry European Alessandra also at the front deskĬhad, Alessandra, and Richie all have something to hide, and Magda’s background includes a twist you won’t see coming.Īll of this lends to the light drama, along with guests like Kimber Marsh, her two young children, Wanda and Louie, and pit bull Doug, who stay for the Summer and get very involved in what’s going on at The Hotel Nantucket.I’m admittedly a super fan of Elin Hilderbrand’s books!įor a quick summary, The Hotel Nantucket is the setting for a Summer on Nantucket island in which this revitalized hotel is striving to achieve a renowned “5 key” review by the travel blogger Shelly Carpenter from Hotel Confidential.īut, the full story of the storied Nantucket hotel itself begins in the Gilded Age, one hundred years earlier, when old chambermaid Grace Hadley died in a suspicious fire and now haunts the hotel, demanding that the true circumstances of her death be revealed.īack in the present, London billionaire Xavier Darling has hired sweetheart Lizbet Keaton, reeling from her split with a Nantucket restaurant owner, as the general manager, and she’s got her eyes set on the handsome chef Mario, who once worked at The Blue Bistro (another beloved Hilderbrand book) and cooks up delicacies just as scrumptious now. The Hotel Nantucket Book Club Questions.

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