New York Times best selling Author, Jane Green, takes us on a journey through the life of fictional Cat Coombs. This woman's fiction book, "Summer Secrets", addresses the life of a woman with alcoholism. Though the book begins with Cat as a single girl in London, who loves to party with friends, have a few drinks and then finds herself with one night stands and not remembering what she did after the few drinks turn into many drinks. Usually ending in Cat passing out.
This book will keep you on your toes because it journeys back to 1998 and then skips a head to 2014. In 1998 Cat's father dies, she is living in London, and her mom decides it's time to let Cat in on a big secret, the dad she always knew was not her biological father. So Cat heads to the beautiful, relaxed town of Nantucket to meet a family she never knew she had. Cat is also sober. Here Cat meets 2 sisters she never knew. She also meets another recovering alcoholic named Jason and soon they marry. Cat and Jason have a daughter and everything seems great, but the whole time Cat is having to control her urge to drink daily. Fighting this demon is very stressful and soon she can't control it any more.
