I can't pretend to know what it feels like to lose a child, but I assume it's the worst pain I've ever felt times a thousand, or times a hundred thousand.
—Elin Hilderbrand in The Identicals
—Elin Hilderbrand in The Identicals
Elin Hilderbrand is an American writer, mostly of romance novels. Her novels are typically set on and around Nantucket Island, where she resides. In 2019, New York magazine called Hilderbrand "the queen of beach reads".
—Hope Edelman in Motherless Daughters
—Meghan O'Rourke in The Long Goodbye
—Helen Macdonald in H is for Hawk