The Hotel Nantucket
The once-grand Hotel Nantucket has sat half-shuttered for years, cursed in local legend by the long-ago death of a young chambermaid named Grace in a 1922 fire. A London billionaire purchases the property, pours money into its renovation, and hires the sharp, personally unmoored Lizbet Keaton as general manager with a single instruction: make the summer season so perfect that Shelly Carpenter, the anonymous influencer behind Hotel Confidential, awards them five keys. As the staff assembles, a Black concierge with hidden ambitions, a Ukrainian housekeeping manager, a tipsy bellman, and a handful of returning regulars, the ghost of Grace watches from the fourth floor and quietly narrates what the living have forgotten. Elin Hilderbrand's novel is a sun-drenched, episodic summer comedy with a gently supernatural frame.
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London billionaire Xavier Darling buys the long-closed Hotel Nantucket and hires Lizbet Keaton, recently dumped by a celebrity chef, as general manager for the relaunch summer. The story follows Lizbet, her new staff, the demanding guests, and the ghost of a chambermaid who died in the 1922 fire.
The Hotel Nantucket is a standalone, but Elin Hilderbrand has written more than 30 novels mostly set on Nantucket. Many share characters, settings, or recurring locations.
Yes. Multiple Elin Hilderbrand novels have been optioned for film and TV. As of 2025, several adaptations are in development.
The Hotel Nantucket was written by Elin Hilderbrand, published in 2022 by Little Brown & Company.
The Hotel Nantucket is 440 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Hotel Nantucket takes most readers 7 to 10 hours to finish.
The Hotel Nantucket is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.