The Perfect Summer

Zusatztext "Heartwarming and assured! Rice’s latest novel (after The Secret Hour ) addresses timeless themes and will linger with readers long after the reading is done.... Rich with scenic settings and colorful characters! this is a beautifully crafted novel."-- Publishers Weekly ! starred review Informationen zum Autor Luanne Rice is the author of twenty-one novels, including Sandcastles, Summer of Roses, Summer’s Child, Silver Bells, Beach Girls, and Dance With Me . She lives in New York City and Old Lyme, Connecticut. Klappentext Old friendships--and love--make all things new again. The acclaimed author of Safe Harbor and other "New York Times bestsellers returns to the seaside! delving into the heart of a once happy family facing troubled waters. Bay McCabe relishes life's simple pleasures! her children! her home by the sea. She has never forgotten the values of her Irish granny--the everyday happiness of family! good friends! and hard work. Bay and her husband! Sean! have weathered rough spells and moved on. Now a perfect summer! filled with the scent of beach roses! lies before them. Charming and ambitious! Sean splits his energy between the town bank! his old fishing boat! and the family he seems to adore--until he leaves his young daughter stranded after school. As troubling memories resurface! a phone call confirms that Sean is missing. So begins a season that will change everything. As the door to all Bay cherishes seems to close forever! another opens! and an old love steps through. Embraced by enduring friendships! Bay will discover the truth of who she is--what love is--and how life's deepest mysteries are often those closest to home. 1 It was a perfect summer day. That was Bay McCabe's thought as she stood in her backyard, a basket of just-washed clothes at her feet, a late-afternoon sea breeze blowing off the Sound. The garden was spectacular this year: Old roses, hollyhocks, delphinium, day lilies, and Rosa rugosa were in bloom. Birds dipped into the water pooled in a rock cleft, and thick green stonecrop softened the contours of granite ledge. Bay felt almost shocked with the beauty of it all, and she forced herself to put down the clothespins and pay attention. Life is made up of golden moments: She had learned that at her grandmother's knee. Annie and Billy were at the beach with friends, and Peg was at Little League practice. It was a rare thing for Bay to have the house and yard to herself during the summer, and she intended to take advantage of every minute. She had called Sean at the bank, to remind him of his promise to pick up Peg from practice. Bay had met her best friend, Tara O'Toole, at the beach for a swim, and now she was going to hang the wash on the line and wait for everyone to come home for dinner. Sunlight streamed down on her red hair and freckled arms. She wore shorts and a sleeveless white shirt, and she worked quickly, from years of watching her grandmother. Mary O'Neill had shown her how it was done: one wooden clothespin in her mouth, the other clipping sheets to the line. Sean teased that the neighbors would judge them, think he wasn't making enough money if his wife had to hang laundry out to dry. He even wanted to hire a gardener. Never mind that digging in the dirt was one of her favorite things, that trying to outdo Tara in the competition--the only real one between them: to grow the tallest sunflowers and hollyhocks and most beautiful roses and prettiest pots of lemon-drop marigolds--gave her reason to get up at dawn every morning. Every morning, she went out to water the garden during the quiet hour before anyone else woke up, waving at Tara doing the same thing in her garden across the creek, then returning inside to make breakfast. All through the day, while her kids were out and about, she would return to the garden to nurture her plants--prun...

Product details

• Authors: Luanne Rice
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.07.2003
• EAN: 9780553584042
• ISBN: 978-0-553-58404-2
• No. of pages: 429
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 176 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Hubbard's Point; Hubbard's Point
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Romance / General, Fiction - Romance