Books with author Marie,Keating

NANTUCKET ISLAND, 1968: YOUNG WAITRESSES DISCOVER ROMANCE AND HEARTACHE AT THE CHANTICLEER!It’s June 1968 and the United States has just experienced two assassinations: Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. On the ‘far-away island’ of Nantucket, the Chanticleer restaurant in ‘Sconset prepares to open its doors for another summer of good food and good wine served by young waitresses. Amy Margaret Prendergast, nicknamed Amp, a sophomore at college has one dream – to work at the Chanticleer. For three years she has dutifully worked as a chambermaid so that she could apply for a job. Amp is one of the ten girls hired for the summer. While on the ferry to the island Chloe enters her life. She is French/American, fun and unemployed. They take to each other immediately.Into the Chanticleer stroll ten handsome, intelligent, Canadian men between the ages of twenty-eight and thirty. Their coolness sends the waitresses into a spin that lasts the summer. Join the girls, Amp and Chloe, as they are drawn deep into a whirlwind of friendship, romance, gritty fun, and poignant sadness. Chloe’s life explodes in the throes of self-destruction. Amp faces her own demons head-on. By the end of the summer Amp’s own boundaries have expanded and she is ready to face a complex world. Without knowing exactly how, Amp outgrows the nickname ‘Chanticleer girl’ forever.

Set on Nantucket Island in the summer of 1968 ten Chanticleer girls serve ten cool and handsome Canadian men at the famous restaurant in 'Sconset. Twenty-year-old Amp arrives at the Chanticleer without experience as a waitress. On the ferry to Nantucket Amp meets Chloe who is French/American, funny and unemployed. Their immediate liking each other binds them in a future whirlwind of friendship, intimacy, betrayal, gritty fun, and poignant sadness. When the Canadians finish their dinners, two of the men, Ian and JJ, ask Chloe and Amp to join them in town for a drink. From the first night at the Opera House to the end of the summer, Amp and Chloe spin in their new feelings awakened by the Canadians. Flirtations, parties, Cameo cigarettes, booze, and passion cover the girls like suntan lotion. When Amp and Chloe sit down in the lounge with the other Chanticleer Girls, they find no one has any better idea about men than they do. What Amp doesn't realize is the pain she will experience by Labor Day weekend. Chloe loses herself in the throes of self-destruction and Amp learns to face her own demons head-on. By the end of the summer Amp's own boundaries have expanded. Without knowing exactly how, Amp becomes a young woman who has outgrown the nickname 'Chanticleer Girl' forever.