New members welcome - join us! The Daytime Book Group is a book club that meets the 4th Monday of each month, at 1 PM, in the Council Chambers room at the Coventry Public Library / Town Hall building.

The Lost Summers of Newport, by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White

2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer on Makeover Mansion, featuring the once-glorious but now crumbling Sprague Hall in Newport -- famous for the opulent "cottages" of the Vanderbilts and Belmonts. But the mansion's reclusive owner, Lucia "Lucky" Sprague, will only allow the show to go forward on two conditions: One, nobody speaks to her. Two, nobody touches the mansion's ruined boathouse.

1899: Ellen Daniels has been hired to give singing lessons to Miss Maybelle Sprague, a young mining heiress. Maybelle's stepbrother, John, is determined to see her married off to a fortune-hunting Italian prince, and Ellen is supposed to polish up the girl for her launch into society. But demure Ellen has her own scandalous past catching up to her.

1957: In the years since Lucky Sprague and her grandmother fled Mussolini's Italy, Lucky's lost her Italian accent and married Stuyvesant Sprague, the alcoholic scion of her Sprague stepfamily. But an encounter in the mansion's old boathouse will uncover a devastating truth...and change everything she thought she knew about her past.

For more information about this book discussion group, please contact Jessica at (401) 822-9104 or jcoppa@coventrylibrary.org.