The Summer I Turned Pretty: Is Cousins Beach a Real Place?

Jenny Han’s bestselling Summer trilogy is again for season two, and our summer season’s already wanting brighter. “The Summer I Turned Pretty” is a coming-of-age romantic drama that follows Isabel “Belly” Conklin (Lola Tung) throughout her household’s annual summer season trip to the idyllic Cousins Beach. When the almost 16-year-old Belly returns to the place, she finds herself on the heart of a difficult love triangle involving her childhood associates, brothers Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno) and Conrad (Christopher Briney). The Amazon Prime sequence has all of the makings of a feel-good summer season providing — the heart-fluttering story of old flame, life-defining friendships, a dreamy soundtrack, and a picturesque seaside setting.

The display screen adaptation, in addition to the 2009 ebook, are each set in Cousins Beach, a seaside in Massachusetts. The breathtaking views of the picture-perfect locale are sufficient to persuade viewers to pack their baggage and hit the quaint location this summer season. However, you’ll have been tumbling down a blind alley attempting to find the coastal city on the web; here is why!

Is Cousins Beach in “The Summer I Turned Pretty” Real?

We hate to be the bearer of unhealthy information, however there isn’t a Cousins Beach in Massachusetts. The made-up seaside city comes from Han’s creativeness. The excellent news is, you can go to the seaside the place the present is filmed. The principal pictures for “The Summer I Turned Pretty” occurred in and across the metropolis of Wilmington, NC. The notable chosen areas embrace Fort Fisher, the Cape Fear Country Club, and the Porters Neck space, as reported by Star News Online.

Is Cousins Beach From “The Summer I Turned Pretty” Inspired by a Real Place?

The creator behind the To All the Boys ebook sequence — who additionally serves as “The Summer I Turned Pretty”‘s showrunner — has beforehand shared the real-life locations that impressed the fictional Cousins Beach. According to Han, she fused collectively numerous seashores throughout the East Coast she’d visited over time to beginning Cousins Beach.

Her time spent in Massachusetts’s Cape Cod working as a nanny throughout grad faculty, specifically, formed her imaginative and prescient. Han additionally weighed in on the topic when curious readers of her novel flocked to social media seeking solutions concerning the mysterious Cousins Beach. The creator famous that aside from Cape Cod, the Hamptons and simply a splash of “Outer Banks” fueled her imaginings. She additionally advised Today that Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts and Nags Head in North Carolina impressed Cousins Beach as effectively. “I borrowed something from all those beaches,” Han mentioned.

Season two of “The Summer I Turned Pretty” arrives on July 14.