Bad Summer People

Author Emma Rosenblum
Narrator January LaVoy
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Run Time 9 hours and 23 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Thriller / suspense fiction.

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A whip-smart, propulsive debut about infidelity, backstabbing, and murderous intrigue, set against an exclusive summer haven on Fire Island

None of them would claim to be a particularly good person. But who among them is actually capable of murder?

Jen Weinstein and Lauren Parker rule the town of Salcombe, Fire Island every summer. They hold sway on the beach and the tennis court, and are adept at manipulating people to get what they want. Their husbands, Sam and Jason, have summered together on the island since childhood, despite lifelong grudges and numerous secrets. Their one single friend, Rachel Woolf, is looking to meet her match, whether he's the tennis pro-or someone else's husband. But even with plenty to gossip about, this season starts out as quietly as any other.

Until a body is discovered, face down off the side of the boardwalk.

Stylish, subversive and darkly comedic, this is a story of what's lurking under the surface of picture-perfect lives in a place where everyone has something to hide.

'Delicious: such gossipy, naughty fun. Cancel all plans while reading - I inhaled this darkly hilarious book over one weekend and resented everything that kept me away from it' LUCY FOLEY

©2023 Emma Rosenblum (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Critics Review

Delicious: such gossipy, naughty fun. Cancel all plans while reading – I inhaled this darkly hilarious book over one weekend and resented everything that kept me away from it

LUCY FOLEY

Bad Summer People is a great summer page-turner packed with sun-soaked secrets, outrageous scandals and salacious gossip. Its cast of gloriously terrible one-percenters and the caustic wit dripping from each page make this a perfect rich-people-behaving-badly beach read. Loved it!

ELLERY LLOYD, AUTHOR OF THE CLUB

Mark your calendars, this is going to be HUGE. It’s whip-smart, gossipy, beachy vibes, with page-turning thrills. Like Rivals meets Malibu Rising with Nancy Mitford-esque observations. The ultimate beach read with edge. Loved it

GEORGINA MOORE, AUTHOR OF THE GARNETT GIRLS

[A] cracking debut . . . Brilliantly written, wryly funny, excitingly paced

DAILY MAIL

Entertaining. Perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

What could be more fun than the misfortunes of a gilded group with more money than morals? This irresistible satire set on Fire Island, the summer playground for super-rich Manhattan families who indulge in back-stabbing and casual cruelty along with barbecues, bake offs, talent shows and tennis lessons, has distinct “White Lotus” vibes – beginning with the discovery of a dead body. Who is the unfortunate whose summer has come to a sticky end, and who was responsible? There’s fun to be had finding out. Rosenblum clearly knows her territory, this is pure pleasure.

THE BOOKSELLER (EDITOR'S CHOICE)

Awful rich people on their summer holidays having affairs and secret money worries, it is DELICIOUS

MARIAN KEYES

This roiling beach community satire serves up wicked, clever fun that is White Lotus sharp. Emma Rosenblum gets to the comic heart of these nasty, nasty people. When I say she is unsparing and they are dreadful I mean it as the highest compliment. It is sinfully good like a summer cocktail you want to keep refilling. I found myself laughing out loud as I read and staying up way too late with this fabulous book

KEVIN KWAN, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CRAZY RICH ASIANS

An intelligent, stylist, and compelling read that you won’t be able to put down. Packed with gossip, slander and bad bad deeds and I enjoyed every salacious word of it. Fans of The White Lotus will devour this in one sitting

17 Degrees

Need a post-Waystar fix? Get your eyes round Bad Summer People

SUNDAY TIMES STYLE

A sizzling sin-fest. The perfect page-turning read

GRAZIA UK BOOK CLUB

I am 100% invested in all the petty (and not-so-petty) drama of the delightfully messy residents of Emma Rosenblum’s Fire Island. I like my beach reads either twisty, steamy, or funny and – lucky me – this was all three. Bad Summer People will absolutely be the book I push on all my friends this summer

CHANDLER BAKER, AUTHOR OF WHISPER NETWORK

Addictive, sharp, sexy as *hell* – which is surely where these brilliantly bad Fire Island frenemies are headed . . . A watermelon margarita (with a twist) of a book. Gulped it down!

FRAN LITTLEWOOD, author of Amazing Grace Adams

Like a tidbit of gossip flowing by on the sea breeze, Bad Summer People is irresistible. Funny, sexy, and scary, it made me eager to eavesdrop but glad not to be entangled in the vacation scandals dreamed up by Emma Rosenblum in her juicy debut

MIRANDA BEVERLY-WHITTEMORE, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BITTERSWEET AND FIERCE LITTLE THING

[A] delicious summer read

HELLO!

[A] scintillating debut… Wickedly entertaining

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Think Succession by the sea as a group of entitled New Yorkers decamp to their holiday homes on Fire Island so they can spend the summer playing tennis and behaving absolutely atrociously

RED MAGAZINE

Pour a long cool glass, sit back and watch the upper echelons of New York behave badly in their lazy summer playground. [The] perfect poolside read

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