An Evening of Conversation with Elin Hilderbrand
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Join us for an evening with bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand as she discusses her newest book, The Thoroughbreds.
Tickets: $32 (admission and book), $20 (admission only)
Tickets are nonrefundable, but may by transferred if you’re unable to attend.
Note: Event being held at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, and all proceeds will be going to the museum.
This event will include a cocktail hour involving trivia, games, and raffles, with a cash bar at 6pm; a moderated interview with HB owner Wendy Dodson to follow at 7pm.
Class is back in session! New York Times bestselling authors of The Academy Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham return with The Thoroughbreds: what has more high-stakes drama, tension, and intrigue than senior year at a New England boarding school?
About The Thoroughbreds:
September at Tiffin Academy is always a heady time, especially for the senior class—“sixth formers,” in Tiffin-speak—a season of college applications and intense pressure, of partying hard and last hurrahs. As the chapel bells ring in students and staff, everyone has something to look forward to—but in the midst of the anticipation and excitement, nagging questions and dark secrets lurk beneath the surface…
Are Tiffin’s It Couple, Charley and East, on the rocks? What sparked the rift between football star Dub and his best friend Hakeem? Will Pippa Sacks, posh day student, topple the delicate social hierarchy—or wreak even worse havoc? Can Head of School Audre Robinson save her job—and the school—after a disastrous financial mistake? And what was in that email attachment Cinnamon Peters sent to Dub before she died?
Elin Hilderbrand and her daughter Shelby Cunningham answer these questions and more in The Thoroughbreds, a page-turning story about friendship, treachery, ambition, and growing up, at any age.
About Elin Hilderbrand:
Elin Hilderbrand is the author of 32 novels, including her latest, The Thoroughbreds, which she wrote with her daughter, Shelby Cunningham. She is a proud 1991 graduate of Johns Hopkins University where she majored in Writing Seminars. In her senior year at Hopkins, Elin had her first short story, "Misdirection," accepted for publication in Seventeen Magazine.
After a short stint working in publishing and teaching in New York City, she moved to Nantucket permanently in 1994. She attended the University of Iowa writers workshop and earned her MFA in 1998, and published her first novel, The Beach Club, in the summer of 2000. SUMMER OF '69 was her first novel to debut at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. She is the mother of three children and loves riding the Peloton, cooking and going to the beach.