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The Five-Star Weekend

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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Overview

The Five-Star Weekend is a realistic romance novel by best-selling American author Elin Hilderbrand. The author’s 29th book, The Five-Star Weekend explores Growth and Forgiveness in Relationships while navigating main character Hollis Shaw’s four closest female friendships during a girls’ weekend in Nantucket, Massachusetts. The novel topped several bestseller lists upon its 2023 release, including that of The New York Times.

This guide refers to the 2023 e-book edition published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hatchette Book Group.

Plot Summary

Hollis Shaw eagerly decides to host a five-star weekend in the wake of her husband’s death. Matthew Madden died in a car accident immediately after he and Hollis argued about their commitment to each other. Surrounding herself with her four best friends from four different stages of her life while indulging in lavish food, wine, and activities seems like a fitting way to battle Hollis’s intense grief. A famous food blogger, Hollis needs to jumpstart content creation for her website, Hungry With Hollis, after a seven-month hiatus. Hollis asks her daughter, Caroline Madden, a film student at New York University, to capture video and photo images of her weekend.

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