This is a very special episode for Books, Beach, & Beyond celebrating Elin’s 31st novel written with her daughter, Shelby Cunningham – The Academy, publishing this September 16th. Our guest for this episode is Elin’s daughter Shelby and they dig into the writing of The Academy, Shelby growing up on Nantucket and heading to boarding school at St. George’s Academy in Rhode Island, and how that inspired the writing of the novel and the fictional Tiffin Academy. The three discuss the difference between Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z, what books they were reading and their individual high school experiences, and so much more! It’s a funny, entertaining look at this mother-daughter duo in anticipation of the book's release.

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Reading List:

• The Academy by Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham
• Pinkalicious
• Fancy Nancy
• Olivia the Pig
• Perfectly Arugula
• 28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand
• The Love Season by Elin Hilderbrand
• The Blue Bistro by Elin Hilderbrand
• Mrs Dalloway
• The Hours by Michael Cunningham
• Jane Eyre 
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Coleman Hill by Kim Coleman Foote
• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• A Separate Peace by John Knowles
• Huck Finn by Mark Twain
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller
• The Thoroughbreds by Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham

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