The Cottage at Glass Beach - A Novel

Zusatztext "Reminiscent of Maeve Binchy's stories of romance and family in tight-knit Irish communities! The Cottage at Glass Beach is full of warmth and sympathy." Informationen zum Autor The author of two previous novels, The Lace Makers of Glenmara and Snow in July , Heather Barbieri has won international prizes for her short fiction. She lives in Seattle with her family. Klappentext Married to the youngest attorney general in Massachusetts state history, Nora Cunningham is a picture-perfect political wife and mother. But her carefully constructed life falls to pieces when she, along with the rest of the world, learns of her husband's infidelity. Humiliated, Nora packs up her young daughters and takes refuge on Burke's Island, off the coast of Maine. Nora spent her first five years on the island but has not been back for decades—not since that long ago summer when her mother disappeared at sea. One night while sitting alone on Glass Beach below the cottage where she spent her childhood, Nora succumbs to grief, her tears flowing into the ocean. Days later she finds a fisherman, Owen Kavanagh, shipwrecked on the rocks nearby. Is he, as her aunt's friend Polly suggests, a selkie—a mythical being of island legend—summoned by her heartbreak, or simply someone who, like Nora, is trying to find his way in the wake of his own personal struggles? Zusammenfassung Heather Barbieri follows her acclaimed Gaelic-tinged drama The Lace Makers of Glenmara with the resonant tale of a woman who! in the wake of scandal! flees to a remote Maine island to reconnect with her past—and to come to terms with the childhood tragedy that has haunted her for a lifetime. Set on the rugged New England coast! Barbieri’s The Cottage at Glass Beach strikes the perfect balance between high lit and mainstream women’s fiction! infusing a potent and unforgettable love story with unforgettable characters that will remain with you long after the final chapter. Richly evocative! Barbieri’s narrative of intimacy! struggle! and redemption will call out to readers of Joanne Harris! Alice Hoffman! and other modern masters of drama. ...

Product details

• Authors: Heather Barbieri
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2012
• EAN: 9780062128492
• ISBN: 978-0-06-212849-2
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Short Stories, Family life fiction, Sea stories, Magical Realism, United States of America, USA, Anthologies: general, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Romance: fantasy and paranormal, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Family Life / General, FICTION: Family Life / Siblings, FICTION: Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), FICTION: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, FICTION: Sea Stories, FICTION: Magical Realism, FICTION: City Life, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales