All the Summer Girls - Meg Donohue (2013)

When Kate is suddenly dumped by her fiance, just as she learns she is pregnant, her best friends from high school, Vanessa and Dani, decide a trip to Avalon, where they spent their summers, is a better option than the bachelorette weekend in Las Vegas they had originally planned. In the eight years since their last summer together there, the three women have grown apart and are now struggling with their current lives. Each brings with her to the island a deeply buried secret about the last night they were there. As the tension-filled weekend unfolds, they each decide now is the time for honesty, hoping the other two can forgive her for what she did. And more importantly, she can forgive herself. All the Summer Girls is a great summer read. At times the story felt a bit drawn out, taking longer than necessary to uncover the truth about what happened, but the build-up shows just how distant the women have become and how much the events of that night have shaped the choices they've made since then. (LEK)

All the Summer Girls, by Meg Donohue, is about three former best friends who are reunited on the New Jersey shore. The summary says: "In Philadelphia, good girl Kate is dumped by her fiance the day she learns she is pregnant with his child. In New York City, beautiful stay-at-home mom Vanessa finds herself obsessively searching the internet for news of an old flame. And in San Francisco, Dani, the wild child and aspiring writer who can't seem to put down a book - or a cocktail - long enough to open her laptop, has just been fired... again. In an effort to regroup, Kate, Vanessa and Dani retreat to the New Jersey beach town where they once spent their summers. Emboldened by the seductive cadences of the shore, the women begin to realise just how much their lives, and friendships, have been shaped by the choices they made one fateful night on the beach eight years earlier - and the secrets that only now threaten to surface."

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