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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The renowned author of The Women presents a poignant, funny, luminous novel about a mother and daughter—the complex ties that bind them, the past that separates them, and the healing that comes with forgiveness.
“[Kristin] Hannah is superb at delving into the characters’ psyches and delineating nuances of feeling.”—Washington Post Book World
Years ago, Nora Bridge walked out on her marriage and left her daughters behind. She has since become a famous radio talk-show host and newspaper columnist beloved for her moral advice. Her youngest daughter, Ruby, is a struggling comedienne who uses her famous mother as fuel for her bitter, cynical humor. When the tabloids unearth a scandalous secret from Nora’s past, their estrangement suddenly becomes dramatic: Nora is injured in an accident and a glossy magazine offers Ruby a fortune to write a tell-all about her mother. Under false pretenses, Ruby returns home to take care of the woman she hasn’t spoken to for almost a decade.
Nora insists they retreat to Summer Island in the San Juans, to the lovely old house on the water where Ruby grew up, a place filled with childhood memories of love and joy and belonging. There Ruby is also reunited with her first love and his brother. Once, the three of them had been best friends, inseparable. Until the summer that Nora had left and everyone’s hearts had been broken. . . .
What began as an expose evolves, as Ruby writes, into an exploration of her family’s past. Nora is not the woman Ruby has hated all these years. Witty, wise, and vulnerable, she is desperate to reconcile with her daughter. As the magazine deadline draws near and Ruby finishes what has begun to seem to her an act of brutal betrayal, she is forced to grow up and at last to look at her mother—and herself—through the eyes of a woman. And she must, finally, allow herself to love.
From the Publisher
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Publication date : November 2, 2004
Language : English
Print length : 448 pages
ISBN-10 : 0345483448
ISBN-13 : 978-0345483447
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 5.18 x 0.86 x 7.85 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #205 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #31 in Contemporary Women Fiction #98 in Contemporary Romance (Books) #167 in Women’s Domestic Life Fiction
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Customers say
Customers find this novel to be a great summer read with a heartfelt storyline about mother-daughter relationships and love surviving heartache. The writing is captivating, with characters coming to life through the author’s skillful development, and the book provides beautiful insight into family drama. While some customers enjoy all the twists and turns, others find the plot predictable, and opinions about the book’s engrossment are mixed.
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