All Summer Long: A Novel

All Summer Long follows Olivia Ritchie, a prominent New York interior designer, and her husband Nicholas Seymour, an English professor and southern gentleman. Married for over fourteen years, they are preparing to relocate from New York to Charleston, South Carolina. While Nick is eager to return home and embrace a slower pace of life, Olivia has doubts about the move and harbors financial concerns she cannot share with him: her client list is shrinking, their savings are depleting, and their chosen house on Sullivans Island requires significant renovation. With help from her assistant Roni Larini, Olivia and Nick travel with wealthy clients and their friends across the globe—from Sullivans Island to Necker Island to Nantucket to Southern Spain—encountering eccentric personalities throughout an eventful summer. As they navigate this period, Olivia grapples with their uncertain future and what comes next for their marriage. The novel explores how plans shift and lives transform unexpectedly, examining whether those with considerable resources can find lasting happiness. It ultimately asks whether money can buy happiness, while following one woman's leap of faith that reshapes everything.