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Mustique Island

A Novel

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From bestselling author Sarah McCoy, a sun-splashed romp with a rich divorcée and her two wayward daughters in 1970s Mustique, the world's most exclusive private island, where Princess Margaret and Mick Jagger were regulars and scandals stayed hidden from the press.

It's January 1972 but the sun is white hot when Willy May Michael's boat first kisses the dock of Mustique Isle. Tucked into the southernmost curve of the Caribbean, Mustique is a private island that has become a haven for the wealthy and privileged. Its owner is the eccentric British playboy Colin Tennant, who is determined to turn this speck of white sand into a luxurious neo-colonial retreat for his rich friends and into a royal court in exile for the Queen's rebellious sister, Princess Margaret—one where Her Royal Highness can skinny dip, party, and entertain lovers away from the public eye.

Willy May, a former beauty queen from Texas—who is also no stranger to marital scandals—seeks out Mustique for its peaceful isolation. Determined to rebuild her life and her relationships with her two daughters, Hilly, a model, and Joanne, a musician, she constructs a fanciful white beach house across the island from Princess Margaret—and finds herself pulled into the island's inner circle of aristocrats, rock stars, and hangers-on.

When Willy May's daughters arrive, they discover that beneath its veneer of decadence, Mustique has a dark side, and like sand caught in the undertow, their mother-daughter story will shift and resettle in ways they never could have imagined.

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    • Library Journal

      December 1, 2021

      Perched in the southern Caribbean and owned by oddball British playboy Colin Tennant, Mustique Island is designed as a hideaway for rich, privileged folks. It's 1972, and divorc�e Willy May Michael--a former Texas beauty queen--builds a house there, not so far from Princess Margaret. When she invites her adult daughters, they discover that Mustique isn't all sun, fun, and glorious white sand. With a 75,000-copy first printing.

      Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Booklist

      March 1, 2022
      Willy May's post-divorce, sail-the-globe voyage of self-discovery fetches her up on the Caribbean island of Mustique, home to expats, ex-wives, and exotic travelers of all stripes. It's the early 1970s, and it's perfectly acceptable to name-drop visiting royalty, whether rock (Mick Jagger) or Windsor (Princess Margaret). For Willy May, Mustique is as far as one could possibly get from her birthplace of Nowheresville, Texas, and her former marital royal-adjacent carriage house. As she puts down roots and puts up a new home, Willy May reluctantly gets roped into the rich-and-famous lifestyle of the island's founding family and finds herself longing for the grounding influences of her adult daughters, aspiring model Hilly and college music major Joanne. When Hilly's career screeches to a halt in Paris, she slinks off to Mustique and mum, only to have an ensuing breakdown that draws Joanne to her bedside. Though sun-drenched and frequently frothy, McCoy's (Marilla of Green Gables, 2018) underlying tale of women-in-crisis who claw their way back to strength carries sobering messages about the importance of family loyalty and resiliency.

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