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From an award-winning author, comes a compelling tale of love lost and found.
A rambling Victorian lakefront cottage, a trunk full of letters, and the heart-rending a heart-rending secret that has torn three generations of women apart....
In the tradition of writers like Anita... read more
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When Jess Carpenter inherits an old lakefront cottage from her grandmother, her first thought is to sell the old place. She spent every summer of her youth there, with her elderly grandmother, but she's not been back in seventeen years. Not since a devastating heartbreak tore her summer... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters/People edit
- Mrs. Mamie Tretheway Cleves: Grandmother who died
- Jess Carpenter: Main character
- Margaret Lila Trathway: Add a description of this character.
- Margaret Adele Tretheway
- Dr. George Lewis
- Elizabeth Cleves
- Phelps Whitmire
- Daniel Painter
- Joni Mitchell Blueover
- Billy Mckawber
- Lila Tretheway Flagg
- Mr. Harris Tretheway
- Doc Coggins
- Paul Banyer
- Gary
- Mrs. May Lewis
- Ernest Hemingway
- Thomas Cardwell Cleves
- Toni Miller Barnes
- Muffin Russ
- Martha Whitmire
- Alvin Whitmire
- Chapin Emelius Flagg
- Erskine Whitmire
- Mrs. Ada Louise Tretheway
- Dear Chapin
- Nora Carroll
Quotes edit
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“Up in Michigan, the summer is brief, crowded between two ends of a desolate northern winter. And yet somehow when you are young, it seems to last forever. A whole lifetime can be hastened to fit between the giddy green leaves of May, and the chastened red and yellow of September.”
Mamie Tretheway
First Sentence edit
There must be a precise moment when wet cement turns dry, when it no longer accepts footprints, or scratched in declarations of love. An ordinary moment, unnoticed, just like any. But in that moment, the facts of a life can change.
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