Tiny Little Thing
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Penguin Publishing Group , 2015.
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In the summer of 1966, Christina HardcastleTiny” to her illustrious familystands on the brink of a breathtaking future. Of the three Schuyler sisters, she’s the one raised to marry a man destined for leadership, and with her elegance and impeccable style, she presents a perfect camera-ready image in the dawning age of television politics. Together she and her husband, Frank, make the ultimate power couple: intelligent, rich, and impossibly attractive. It seems nothing can stop Frank from rising to national office, and he’s got his sights set on a senate seat in November.But as the season gets underway at the family estate on Cape Cod, three unwelcome visitors appear in Tiny’s perfect life: her volatile sister Pepper, an envelope containing incriminating photograph, and the intimidating figure of Frank’s cousin Vietnam-war hero Caspian, who knows more about Tiny’s rich inner life than anyone else. As she struggles to maintain the glossy façade on which the Hardcastle family’s ambitions are built, Tiny begins to suspect that Frank is hiding a reckless entanglement of his ownone that may unravel both her own ordered life and her husband’s promising career.

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06/23/2015
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English
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9780698164963

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Booklist Review

Williams gets more mileage here out of some of the characters introduced in The Secret Life of Violet Grant (2014). Tiny Schuyler was groomed by her mother to be the perfect wife for an ambitious man. Now married to Frank, crown prince of the Kennedyesque Hardcastle clan, Tiny presides with grace over their summer compound on Cape Cod. But just as Frank is about to launch his political career with a run for Congress, Tiny starts to crumble. She has had another miscarriage, she suspects Frank is sleeping around, and Franks's war-hero cousin, Cap, returns from Vietnam, further upsetting her equilibrium. For Tiny has a secret. Two years earlier, just two weeks before her wedding, she and Cap had a fling, and now she is being blackmailed over some artsy but compromising photos Cap took of her during their time together. Although occasionally tipping into melodrama, the novel effectively melds intrigue, romance, and gloss into an engrossing tale of a woman struggling to get out from under the weight of crushing expectations.--Quinn, Mary Ellen Copyright 2015 Booklist

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Kirkus Book Review

During her husband's 1966 congressional run, Christina "Tiny" Hardcastle realizes her picture-perfect life has more than a few cracks and that maybe the time has come to be true to herself rather than to the glossy facade she has created. "The first photograph arrives in the mail on the same day that my husband appears on television at the Medal of Honor ceremony." So begins Williams' second novel about the Schuyler sisters, after The Secret Life of Violet Grant 2014). Tiny's husband is Frank Hardcastle, running for Congress in Massachusetts, and he's attending the ceremony for his cousin, Maj. Caspian Harrison, an unexpected boon and photo-op for his campaign, while the rest of the family holes up in their Cape Cod compound. The Hardcastle family is old money, and Frank has been bred his whole life for this campaign. Tiny, the posh, polished, and always proper eldest Schuyler sister, is also from money and is the perfect wife for the perfect candidate. Except that two years into her marriage, she's questioning everything. Again. There seem to be a number of "tiny little things" the title refers to other than Tiny herself, including: the soul-changing events a few weeks before her wedding, when she first met Caspian; the miscarriage she suffers just days before the ceremony; Frank's secretive behavior that leads Tiny to believe he's having an affair; the scandalous pictures someone is blackmailing Tiny with; and the sudden and unexpected arrival of Tiny's vibrant, alluring, and nearly-never-proper sister Pepper. Elegantly written, mainly from Caspian's third-person 1964 perspective and Tiny's first-person 1966 perspective, the book is strewn with unexpected heroes and villains and makes an exclusive, Kennedy-esque world accessible. The underlying message is that money can't buy happiness, especially when you're living in a skin that no longer fits. A fascinating look at wealth, love, ambition, secrets, and what family members will and won't do to protect each other. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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Booklist Reviews

Williams gets more mileage here out of some of the characters introduced in The Secret Life of Violet Grant (2014). Tiny Schuyler was groomed by her mother to be the perfect wife for an ambitious man. Now married to Frank, "crown prince" of the Kennedyesque Hardcastle clan, Tiny presides with grace over their summer compound on Cape Cod. But just as Frank is about to launch his political career with a run for Congress, Tiny starts to crumble. She has had another miscarriage, she suspects Frank is sleeping around, and Franks's war-hero cousin, Cap, returns from Vietnam, further upsetting her equilibrium. For Tiny has a secret. Two years earlier, just two weeks before her wedding, she and Cap had a fling, and now she is being blackmailed over some artsy but compromising photos Cap took of her during their time together. Although occasionally tipping into melodrama, the novel effectively melds intrigue, romance, and gloss into an engrossing tale of a woman struggling to get out from under the weight of crushing expectations. Copyright 2014 Booklist Reviews.

Copyright 2014 Booklist Reviews.
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Library Journal Reviews

It's a glorious Cape Cod summer in 1966, which classy Christina ("Tiny") Hardcastle is enjoying with her rising politician husband, Frank. But Tiny's explosive sister, Frank's war hero cousin, and some damning photographs could wreck everything. From the New York Times best-selling author.

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Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Williams, B. (2015). Tiny Little Thing . Penguin Publishing Group.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Williams, Beatriz. 2015. Tiny Little Thing. Penguin Publishing Group.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Williams, Beatriz. Tiny Little Thing Penguin Publishing Group, 2015.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Williams, B. (2015). Tiny little thing. Penguin Publishing Group.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Williams, Beatriz. Tiny Little Thing Penguin Publishing Group, 2015.

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