Summer Reading is the story of three women whose disparate lives intersect in the Hamptons. Lissy Snyder is a beautiful��emotionally needy newlywed ��and the unwilling stepmother to her
husband's hostile children. Her eavesdropping housekeeper��Michelle��resents the moneyed arrogance around her. Bookish Angela Graves��leader of the Page Turners book discussion group��harbors a
shameful memory of a disastrous affair she had long ago. As summer progresses��Angela encourages her book group to identify with the heroines of novels by Trollope��Flaubert��and Charlotte
Bront禱. But can reading really influence the choices people make ��and even change the course of lives?