Edith Wharton’s perceptive view of high society meets Elin Hilderbrand’s intricate island relationships among women in Susannah Marren’s latest novel, A Palm Beach Wife. Marren, the pen name of gender and relationship expert Susan Shapiro Barash, has drawn a riveting portrait of spousal loyalty, female rivalry and the complicated mother-daughter bond.

Barash will be in Beach Haven on Saturday, June 22, to do a sidewalk signing at Kapler’s Pharmacy beginning at 9 a.m., and then atTuckers Tavern starting at 6 p.m.