**From the #1** _**New York Times**_**bestselling author of** _**Big Summer**_**comes another timely and deliciously twisty novel of intrigue, secrets, and the transformative power of female friendship.** Daisy Shoemaker can't sleep. With a thriving cooking business, full schedule of volunteer wor
That summer in Maine: a novel: Novel
โ Scribed by Brianna Wolfson
- Publisher
- MIRA
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 148 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Toronto;Ontario
- ISBN
- 1488088594
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โฆ Synopsis
"Wolfson's writing is superb." --The Washington Post
A novel about mothers and daughters, about taking chances, about exploding secrets and testing the boundaries of family
Years ago, during a certain summer in Maine, two young women, unaware of each other, met a charismatic man at a craft fair and each had a brief affair with him. For Jane it was a chance to bury her recent pain in raw passion and redirect her life. For Susie it was a fling that gave her troubled marriage a way forward.
Now, sixteen years later, the family lives these women have made are suddenly upended when their teenage girls meet as strangers on social media. They concoct a plan to spend the summer in Maine with the man who is their biological father. Their determination puts them on a collision course with their mothers, who must finally meet and acknowledge their shared past and join forces as they risk losing their only daughters to a man...
โฆ Subjects
Womens Fiction
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