Zlaté děvče – Hilderbrand Elin (2022)

When Vivian Howe, the author of thirteen novels and mother of three adult children, is struck by a car while jogging near her home and the driver flees the scene, Vivi ascends to the Afterlife. Because her death was sudden and unjust, she is allowed to watch what happens below with her children, her best friend, her ex-husband, and a rival novelist whose book is being released on the same day as hers. Vivi is also given the chance to intervene three times in earthly matters and influence the course of events in the world of the living. She uncovers secrets about her own children, follows the investigation into her own death, and simultaneously fears that a secret from her youth will come to light; she must consider what she wants to change and what should remain as it is. The combination of beach stories from Elin Hilderbrand, mouth-watering dishes, and images of perfect households with the heartfelt confession that the people we lose never truly leave us places the book Golden Girl by this 'queen of summer novels' at the top of all beach reads published so far.