All Our Summers (A Yorktide, Maine Novel)
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All Our Summers (A Yorktide, Maine Novel)

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Price
$8.39
Format
Paperback
Pages
480
Publisher
Kensington
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1496719225
Dimensions
5.49 x 1.26 x 8.19 inches
Weight
13.6 ounces

Description

Holly Chamberlin was born and raised in New York City. After earning a Master’s degree in English Literature from New York University and working as an editor in the publishing industry for ten years, she moved to Boston, married and became a freelance editor and writer. She and her husband now live in downtown Portland, Maine, in a restored mid-nineteenth-century brick townhouse with Betty, the most athletic, beautiful and intelligent cat in the world. Readers can visit her website at:xa0www.hollychamberlin.com.

Features & Highlights

  • Against the picturesque coastal Maine setting that she evokes so well, bestselling author Holly Chamberlin creates a heartfelt story of family bonds and new beginnings . . .
  • It came as no surprise to anyone in Yorktide when glamorous Carol Ascher fled the little Maine town for New York City. While Carol found success as an interior designer, her younger sister, Bonnie, stayed behind, embracing marriage and motherhood. She even agreed to take in Carol’s teenage daughter during a tumultuous patch. Now both their girls are grown and Bonnie, recently widowed, is anticipating the day she’ll retire to Ferndean House, the nineteenth-century family home on the rocky Maine coast.   But forty-five years after leaving Yorktide, Carol suddenly announces that she’s moving back—into Ferndean. Bonnie is indignant. She’s the one who kept the homestead in order and tended to their dying mother. Now Carol expects to simply buy her out? As far as Bonnie is concerned, Ferndean is part of their heritage—not just another of Carol’s improvement projects, to be torn apart and remade according to her whim.   The entire Ascher family is in flux, uncovering secrets that upend their relationships. Carol’s longing to be welcomed home is fueled by a painful truth she’s carried for years. It will take an extraordinary summer—in a remarkable place—to lead these women back to each other, buoyed by the tides of friendship and forgiveness.

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Boring, meaningless and vapid.

2/3rds of the way and I am done with this book. I find myself not caring a whit what happens to these whiny, spineless and utterly boring women. Maybe a tsunami to just end their misery and mine as well. This insipid novel never ends.
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Sisters

I love books about sisters, and this one fit the bill. The two main characters are in their sixties, Carol and Bonnie; Carol left their small Maine town and became a successful interior designer in NYC, while Bonnie stayed home, married, and had a family. Why did Carol send her daughter Nicola to live with Bonnie and Ken? Now that Carol is returning to claim her half of the family home, what are her intentions? Julie, Bonnie’s daughter, is distraught after learning her husband has an affair. How does her relationship with her mother, aunt and mother’s cousin help in her finding herself? These answers and more will be evident as you read his enjoyable novel. Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC.

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