Kerri Maher
Kerri Maher
USA Today Bestselling Author
New Release
Summer of Love
(July 26)
In this moving novel about the transformative power of storytelling, three women make life-changing decisions set in motion by the 1967 Summer of Love in San Francisco, shaping the legacy of their family’s Napa Valley winery forever​.
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​1967: Concerts, hippies, and war protests define the counter-culture revolution that flourishes during the Summer of Love in San Francisco. No one is more into the messages of love and peace than Winifred (Winnie) Hartley who has just graduated from UC Berkeley determined to make it as a poet. When she reconnects with her high school boyfriend Lincoln Sawyer, it feels like her life is finally everything she wants it to be. Meanwhile, her sister Miranda throws herself into running the family business, Hartley Vineyard, determined to make California wine that rivals French. Little do the sisters know that the choices they make and the secrets they keep will set their lives down radically different paths.
2015: Dawn Hartley has a secret that she can’t share with her mother Miranda, who has long been her closest confidant. How can she possibly admit that she has a drinking problem to her famous vintner mother? It feels like a betrayal of her own heritage. When an assignment for work requires her to research the wildly popular Vineland novels by a famously anonymous writer, she embarks on a quest that will shake her to the core, and just might set her life on the right path at last.
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PRAISE AND REVIEWS
​"Summer of Love is a gorgeous ode to California history, from the sun-drenched hills of Napa to the hippie-jammed concerts of San Francisco at the heights of the sixties. Three interconnected women face very different demons, and Maher writes female struggle with a sure and sensitive touch, penning a delightful intergenerational tale as her three heroines find their varied ways to a better future."
Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Briar Club
"Maher's descriptions of California are lush with sensory detail, and she deftly weaves the threads of intergenerational trauma and addiction into an uplifting novel that celebrates the importance of storytelling in recovery."
Laura McKowen, bestselling author of We Are the Luckiest and Push Off From Here
"An immersive page-turner that offers a complex braid of love, addiction, and the challenges of relationships between sisters and mothers, set against an authentic California ... More than a tale of family Summer of Love delves into the nature of secrets and addiction, the hope of recovery, and the power of storytelling to set us free. I genuinely loved this novel."​​
Barbara O'Neal, author of When We Believed In Mermaids and The Last Letter of Rachel Ellsworth
​"A toast to Summer of Love! This special novel about sisters & secrets, wine & words, and addiction & absolution captivates ... deftly transports the reader to the sunny Californiaia landscapes of yesterday and today and delivers a wollop of a story that keeps the pages turning late into the night"
Susie Orman Schnall, bestselling author of We Came Here To Shine
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Kerri Maher is the USA Today, ABA, and international bestselling author of The Paris Bookseller, All You Have To Do Is Call, The Girl In White Gloves, and The Kennedy Debutante. Under the name Kerri Majors, she is also the author of a memoir, This Is Not A Writing Manual: Notes For the Young Writer In The Real World.
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