Bad Summer People

SUN. SCANDAL. SECRETS. IT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO END IN MURDER . . . 
Get ready for the most scandalous read of the summer . . . 
'It is DELICIOUS' MARIAN KEYES 
‘Such gossipy, naughty fun’ LUCY FOLEY 
 
‘Wicked, clever, sinfully good’ KEVIN KWAN 
 
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 The island’s where you go to have fun. 
 Miles of beaches and boardwalks. 
 The sun’s hot. The games are competitive. 
 And the best liaisons are illicit. 
 
 The same rich families have been 
 coming every summer for years. 
 And whether it’s on the tennis court, or in the 
 bedroom, old rivalries gain a new frisson. 
 
 Then the body is found. 
 Is it murder? Has it all, finally, gone too far? 
 But if so – how do you stop? 
 --- 
 
‘Brilliantly written, wryly funny, excitingly paced’ DAILY MAIL 
 
 ‘A sizzling sin-fest. The perfect page-turning read’ GRAZIA 
 
 ‘An addictive thriller’ NEW YORK TIMES

Delicious: such gossipy, naughty fun. Cancel all plans while reading - I inhaled this darkly hilarious book over one weekend and resented everything that kept me away from it

Bad Summer People is a great summer page-turner packed with sun-soaked secrets, outrageous scandals and salacious gossip. Its cast of gloriously terrible one-percenters and the caustic wit dripping from each page make this a perfect rich-people-behaving-badly beach read. Loved it!

Mark your calendars, this is going to be HUGE. It's whip-smart, gossipy, beachy vibes, with page-turning thrills. Like Rivals meets Malibu Rising with Nancy Mitford-esque observations. The ultimate beach read with edge. Loved it

GEORGINA MOORE, AUTHOR OF THE GARNETT GIRLS

[A] cracking debut . . . Brilliantly written, wryly funny, excitingly paced

Entertaining. Perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty

What could be more fun than the misfortunes of a gilded group with more money than morals? This irresistible satire set on Fire Island, the summer playground for super-rich Manhattan families who indulge in back-stabbing and casual cruelty along with barbecues, bake offs, talent shows and tennis lessons, has distinct "White Lotus" vibes - beginning with the discovery of a dead body. Who is the unfortunate whose summer has come to a sticky end, and who was responsible? There's fun to be had finding out. Rosenblum clearly knows her territory, this is pure pleasure.

Awful rich people on their summer holidays having affairs and secret money worries, it is DELICIOUS

This roiling beach community satire serves up wicked, clever fun that is White Lotus sharp. Emma Rosenblum gets to the comic heart of these nasty, nasty people. When I say she is unsparing and they are dreadful I mean it as the highest compliment. It is sinfully good like a summer cocktail you want to keep refilling. I found myself laughing out loud as I read and staying up way too late with this fabulous book

KEVIN KWAN, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CRAZY RICH ASIANS

An intelligent, stylist, and compelling read that you won't be able to put down. Packed with gossip, slander and bad bad deeds and I enjoyed every salacious word of it. Fans of The White Lotus will devour this in one sitting

Need a post-Waystar fix? Get your eyes round Bad Summer People

A sizzling sin-fest. The perfect page-turning read

I am 100% invested in all the petty (and not-so-petty) drama of the delightfully messy residents of Emma Rosenblum's Fire Island. I like my beach reads either twisty, steamy, or funny and - lucky me - this was all three. Bad Summer People will absolutely be the book I push on all my friends this summer

CHANDLER BAKER, AUTHOR OF WHISPER NETWORK

Addictive, sharp, sexy as *hell* - which is surely where these brilliantly bad Fire Island frenemies are headed . . . A watermelon margarita (with a twist) of a book. Gulped it down!

FRAN LITTLEWOOD, author of Amazing Grace Adams

Like a tidbit of gossip flowing by on the sea breeze, Bad Summer People is irresistible. Funny, sexy, and scary, it made me eager to eavesdrop but glad not to be entangled in the vacation scandals dreamed up by Emma Rosenblum in her juicy debut

MIRANDA BEVERLY-WHITTEMORE, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BITTERSWEET AND FIERCE LITTLE THING

[A] scintillating debut... Wickedly entertaining

Think Succession by the sea as a group of entitled New Yorkers decamp to their holiday homes on Fire Island so they can spend the summer playing tennis and behaving absolutely atrociously

Pour a long cool glass, sit back and watch the upper echelons of New York behave badly in their lazy summer playground. [The] perfect poolside read

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Emma Rosenblum is Chief Content Officer at Bustle Digital Group. Prior to BDG, Emma served as the executive editor of Elle, the editorial director of Bloomberg Pursuits, a senior editor at Bloomberg Businessweek, and a senior editor at Glamour. She began her career at New York Magazine. Emma's debut novel, Bad Summer People, is a satire set on New York State's Fire Island. Very Bad Company is her second novel.

Fire Island is where every wants to spend their summer. Each year, the city elite gather , trailing kids, their nannies, and seafood imported from Manhattan. 
 
Take the Parkers and the Weinsteins. Lauren and Jen hold sway on the beach and the tennis court. Their husbands are childhood friends bearing grudges as deep as they are secret. 
 
Their lone single friend, Rachel Woolf, is looking to meet her match, whether he's the new tennis pro - or someone else's husband. 
 
It's set to be another summer of tennis and sunbathing, gossip and scandal. No one expects it to end in murder...

Emma Rosenblum

Juicy and hilarious, especially if you've ever had the misfortune of speaking to a tech bro for too long

A darkly funny mystery about toxic corporate culture

Fun, page-turning corporate suspense

The wicked streak Rosenblum exhibited in her debut shows up here, too... This is a beach read with bite

Rosenblum pits a fantastic cast of characters against each other in the weird world of tech

Wicked, clever fun that is White Lotus sharp

Delicious: such gossipy, naughty fun. Cancel all plans while reading - I inhaled this

When Caitlin accepts a new high-powered job at Aurora, she can't possibly realise what she's letting herself in for. 
 
On the one hand, the senior team she&rsquo;s joining is full of big personalities, never happier than when nursing a bitter grudge or pursuing an illicit affair. 
 
On the other, the company is up for sale, and if they can just hold it together at their glamorous corporate retreat, each is set to make millions. 
 
But when the group heads out on the first night of the trip, everyone drinks too much. People say &ndash; and do &ndash; things they&rsquo;ll soon regret. 
 
And next morning, one of the team is missing...

Very Bad Company

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Juicy and hilarious, especially if you've ever had the misfortune of speaking to a tech bro for too long

A darkly funny mystery about toxic corporate culture

Fun, page-turning corporate suspense

Juicy and hilarious, especially if you've ever had the misfortune of speaking to a tech bro for too long

A darkly funny mystery about toxic corporate culture

Fun, page-turning corporate suspense

Juicy and hilarious, especially if you've ever had the misfortune of speaking to a tech bro for too long

A darkly funny mystery about toxic corporate culture

Fun, page-turning corporate suspense

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