THE SUMMER IN BETWEEN

From the acclaimed author of SUMMER DARLINGS and ON GIN LANE comes a new novel set in the dual timelines of 1967 and 1977 that follows estranged friends whose unexpected reconnection in the Hamptons one memorable summer will force them to finally confront the terrible event that once drove them apart.

Two young women (wealthy, impulsive Margot and hardscrabble, steady Thea) meet while working in a record store in the summer 1967--a time of great change and heady promise for them both. But ten years later, the women haven't spoken since a traumatic incident at the end of that summer that caused Margot to flee and left both women haunted. When Margot sails (literally and figuratively) back into Thea's orbit and in desperate need of help, Thea can't refuse her - but knows she also can't trust her. Unfulfilled as a housewife who's never left Long Island, Thea can't help but enjoy Margot's dazzle and the sense of possibility from her younger years that Margot awakens. But will the truth of what happened to them that summer ruin everything? And could a trip down memory lane with mysterious, reckless Margot cost Thea her carefully-constructed life? Brook Lea Foster is an award-winning journalist whose articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, and HuffPost, among others. An alumna of The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, Foster is the author of three nonfiction books and the novels Summer Darlings and On Gin Lane.