Tuesday, July 10, 2012

What is Anita Hughes reading?

The current featured contributor at Writers Read: Anita Hughes, author of Monarch Beach.

Her entry begins:
I am a voracious reader, one might even say an obsessive reader. When I am not writing, parenting or walking the dog, I generally have my head in a book. I still read physical books because I like to cart them around with me. They become my companions and I am drawn to books with gorgeous, tantalizing covers.

Two books that have wowed me recently are Overseas by Beatriz Williams and...[read on]
About Monarch Beach, from the publisher:
Anita Hughes' Monarch Beach is an absorbing debut novel about one woman’s journey back to happiness after an affair splinters her perfect marriage and life—what it means to be loved, betrayed and to love again.

When Amanda Blick, a young mother and kindhearted San Francisco heiress, finds her gorgeous French chef husband wrapped around his sous-chef, she knows she must flee her life in order to rebuild it. The opportunity falls into her lap when her (very lovable) mother suggests Amanda and her young son, Max, spend the summer with her at the St. Regis Resort in Laguna Beach. With the waves right outside her windows and nothing more to worry about than finding the next relaxing thing to do, Amanda should be having the time of her life—and escaping the drama. But instead, she finds herself faced with a kind, older divorcee who showers her with attention… and she discovers that the road to healing is never simple. This is the sometimes funny, sometimes bitter, but always moving story about the mistakes and discoveries a woman makes when her perfect world is turned upside down.
Learn more about the book and author at Anita Hughes's website.

Writers Read: Anita Hughes.

--Marshal Zeringue