People We Meet on VacationFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers and Beach Read comes a sparkling novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations. Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She's a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a

Caliban seems to be a monster for attacking Miranda

narrowly escapes Scylla and Charybdis

and never stopped striving for a better life

But General Buller's relief column can't break through

Briony will have witnessed mysteries

leaving her husband and children because she wants to discover herself

giving language to the silent space that separates people and the space that they transgress to reach each other

Commodities permeate virtually every aspect of modern daily living

paranoia and malice

this dark tale blends lavishly entertaining storytelling with Rhodes's macabre imagination

Vintage hardcover

In nineteenth-century England