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Enchanted August / Brenda Bowen.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525429050 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: 311 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, 2015.
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| Subject: | Female friendship > Fiction. Maine > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | FIC Bowen | 31681002505212 | FICTION | Available | - |
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Four women struggling with loss, disappointment and overwork rent a small summer cottage in Maine, where they find wholeness in regional comforts while sharing their respective stories and rediscovering their passions. 75,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
Four women struggling with loss, disappointment, and overwork rent a small summer cottage in Maine, where they find wholeness in regional comforts while sharing their respective stories and rediscovering their passions. - Penguin Putnam
âIn a rented seaside cottage in Maine, four women recharge, regroup and eat plenty of lobster far away from their pressure-filled lives. A charming, thoroughly engrossing novel thatâs the next best thing to being there.â âPeople Magazine
On a dreary spring day in Brooklyn, Lottie Wilkes and Rose Arbuthnot spot an ad on their childrenâs preschool bulletin board:
Hopewell Cottage
Little Lost Island, Maine.
Old, pretty cottage to rent on a small island.
Springwater, blueberries, sea glass.
August.
Neither can afford it, but they are smittenâLottie could use a break from her overbearing husband and Rose from her relentless twins. On impulse, they decide to take the place and attract two others to share the steep rent: Caroline Dester, an indie movie star whoâs getting over a very public humiliation, and elderly Beverly Fisher, whoâs recovering from heartbreaking loss. If itâs not a perfect quartet, surely it will be fine for a month in the country.
When they arrive on the island, they are transformed by the salt air; the breathtaking views; the long, lazy days; and the happy routine of lobster, corn, and cocktails on the wraparound porch. By the time of the late-August blue moon, real life and its complications have finally fallen far, far away. For on this idyllic island they gradually begin to open up: to one another and to the possibilities of lives quite different from the ones theyâve been leading. Change canât be that hard, can it?
With a cast of endearingly imperfect characters and set against the beauty of a gorgeous New England summer,Enchanted August is a sparkling summer debut that brilliantly updates the beloved classicThe Enchanted April in a novel of love and reawakening that is simply irresistible and offers readers a universal fantasy: one glorious month away from it all - Random House, Inc.
A sparkling summer debut of love and reawakening that transports the classicThe Enchanted April to a picture-perfect island in Maine
Itâs a rainy summer in Park Slope, Brooklyn, when two unhappily married women, Lottie Wilkinson and Rose Arbuthnot, spot a tattered ad on their childrenâs preschool bulletin board:
Hopewell Cottage
Little Lost Island, Maine.
Old pretty cottage to rent
Spring water, blueberries, sea glass.
August.
Neither can afford it, but they are smitten. To share expenses, they find two companions: Caroline Dester, the exquisite darling of the independent movie scene, and elderly Beverly Fisher, who is recovering from heartbreaking loss. Transformed by the refreshing summer breezes, steamed lobsters, and cocktail hours on the wrap-around porch, the unlikely quartet gradually begin to open up to one another, and ultimately rediscover their capacity to love and be loved.
With a cast of quirky and endearing characters set against the beauty of an idyllic New England summer,Enchanted August brilliantly updates a beloved classic and offers readers a universal fantasy: one glorious summer month away from it all.
