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Summer of Good Intentions
Wendy Francis
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Belletristik / Gegenwartsliteratur (ab 1945)
Beschreibung
Cape Cod summers are supposed to remain reassuringly the same, but everything falls apart when three sisters and their families come together for their annual summer vacationand they are carrying more secrets than suitcases.Maggie is the oldest. She feels responsible for managing the summer house and making sure everything is as it always has been. But shes hurt that her parents recent divorce has destroyed the familys comfortable summer routines, and her own kids seem to be growing up at high speed. Is it too late to have another baby? Jess is the middle sister. She loves her job but isnt as passionate about her marriage. Shes not sure she can find the courage to tell Maggie what shes donemuch less talk to her husband about it. Virgie is the youngest, her dads favorite. Shes always been the career girl, but now theres a man in her life. Her television job on the west coast is beyond stressful, and its taking its toll on heremotionally and physically. Shes counting on this vacation to erase the symptoms shes not talking about. The Herington girls are together again, with their husbands and kids, for another summer in the familys old Cape Cod house. When their mother, Gloria, announces shes coming for an unscheduled visitwith her new boyfriendno one is more surprised than their father, Arthur, who has not quite gotten over his divorce. Still, everyone manages to navigate the challenges of living grown-up lives in close quarters, until an accident reveals a new secret that brings everyone together in heartbreakand then healing. Poignant, compelling, and so real that you could shake the sand out of the pages, The Summer of Good Intentions is by a rising star who aims her fiction square at the heart of readers who love Elin Hilderbrand, Dorothea Benton Frank, and Mary Kay Andrews.
