My review:?????
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid is set in the 1950s and in the 1980s as Nina Riva is getting ready for the Riva family annual party, which has become the place to be
Nina’s professional tennis playing husband has left her for another professional tennis player, and Nina is trying to work out what the point of it all is, and is dreading the party.
People who aren’t dreading it are her siblings – her professional surfer brother Jay and Hud, the professional photographer, who takes Jay’s photo, and her little sister Kit. They are all good looking, good surfers, and their father, whilst alive, is estranged from them all.
This is a very atmospheric book, with family tensions that made you keep turning the pages so you can learn more about where they started. Being able to see Mick Riva starting out in the 1950s makes this more poignant, as you follow the family from the start.
Malibu Rising was published on 27th May 2021 and is available from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.
You can follow Taylor Jenkins Reid on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and her website. This was the first of her books that I’ve read, but I’ll be finding her others, such as Daisy Jones & The Six.
I was given this book in exchange for an unbiased review, and so my thanks to NetGalley and to Cornerstone, Random House.