Where Snowbirds Play – Limited Hardback Edition

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Imprint: Hay Press
ISBN: 9781804471579
Hardback • 232pp • £24
135 mm x 215 mm
6 May 2025
Thema: FBA, FQ, LNFN, 1KBB-US-SEF

Territory: World English

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Gina Goldhammer

Published by Hay Press, an imprint of Renard Press

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Was it pure chance that he had run into her so soon? Philip had never believed in destiny, and his father had believed in nothing but his own genius. And yet…

From the moment recent Oxford graduate Philip takes the helm of a new marine life institute in Palm Beach, his presence revives old feuds and sparks rivalries among the wealthy resident snowbirds, many of whom have invested heavily in a biotech company soon to be exposed for insider trading. It quickly becomes clear that Philip’s quest for atonement on the behalf of his father will embroil many of the community’s most prominent members.

Interwoven with snippets of real-life drama from an insider-trading scandal, Where Snowbirds Play paints a compelling portrait of the lives of the privileged, and what happens when their world is turned upside down.

Goldhammer transports us from Highgate to a Palm Beach awash with money (some of it dodgy), where fearsome, rivalrous matriarchs rule the roost. A sharp, often funny, affecting debut.

Rose Shepherd, Saga Magazine (Novel of the Month for July 2025)

I couldn’t stop reading this gripping story… Goldhammer is tender but unsentimental.

Elisa Segrave, author of The Girl from Station X

Nostalgia and longing in the best literary fiction out now.

Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail

[An] expansive and fascinating novel… a riveting behind-the-scenes window into a world of privilege but also a cri-de-cœur for the damage we are wreaking on our world.

Maggie Brookes, author of The Prisoner’s Wife and Acts of Love and War

Gina Goldhammer’s Where Snowbirds Play offers an arresting and singular perspective on a lifestyle few experience firsthand. Taking readers into the heart of privilege, Goldhammer spins a compelling story that lays bare the tensions, frailties, desires and self-deceptions that drive human beings everywhere. Sumptuous, witty and surprising, this novel will transport you to a world that is at once absorbingly fresh, and a charming – and alarming – reflection of our own.

Ann Morgan

Gina Goldhammer

Gina Goldhammer studied English and Creative Writing at Syracuse University, has a master’s degree in literature from Harvard, and after graduation worked briefly on Wall Street and at US News & World Report magazine. For the next twenty years, she was the personal editor of the former US Secretary of State, Henry A. Kissinger, and worked with him closely on all his books, speeches and news columns, including his 1994 seminal work, Diplomacy. Gina’s father was involved in geopolitics during the Cold War, attaining prominence in 1961 as the highest-ranking defector from a communist country – a story she is working into a novel. Gina is a Florida snowbird who spends time in London and Venice.

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