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Shopping for a beach read doesn’t have to stop after you’ve left the bookstore. Once you’ve plucked a novel off a shelf, packed it in your tote, and cracked it open (preferably poolside), it’s time to live what you’re reading on the page.
May we recommend Judy Blundell’s Hamptons-set The High Season, best enjoyed when wearing gingham? There’s also Julia Whelan’s My Oxford Year, which unfolds in charming Oxfordshire and reads even better when read through a pair of thick-rimmed glasses. You’ll find yourself in the French Riviera’s Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat in Elisabeth Cohen’s The Glitch, in the French countryside in You Me Everything by Catherine Isaac, and the Big Apple in Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering.
With so many novels set in the most scenic locales, consider looking the part while your mind wanders off into the pages. Some options, below.
