The Bookshop at Water's End
Patti Callahan Henry
- The
- women
- who
- spent
- their
- childhood
- summers
- in
- a
- small
- southern
- town
- discover
- it
- harbors
- secrets
- as
- lush
- as
- the
- marshes
- that
- surround
- it...Bonny
- Blankenship’s
- most
- treasured
- memories
- are
- of
- idyllic
- summers
- spent
- in
- Watersend,
- South
- Carolina,
- with
- her
- best
- friend,
- Lainey
- McKay.
- Amid
- the
- sand
- dunes
- and
- oak
- trees
- draped
- with
- Spanish
- moss,
- they
- swam
- and
- wished
- for
- happy-ever-afters,
- then
- escaped
- to
- the
- local
- bookshop
- to
- read
- and
- whisper
- in
- the
- glorious
- cool
- silence.
- Until
- the
- night
- that
- changed
- everything,
- the
- night
- that
- Lainey’s
- mother
- disappeared.Now,
- in
- her
- early
- fifties,
- Bonny
- is
- desperate
- to
- clear
- her
- head
- after
- a
- tragic
- mistake
- threatens
- her
- career
- as
- an
- emergency
- room
- doctor,
- and
- her
- marriage
- crumbles
- around
- her.
- With
- her
- troubled
- teenage
- daughter,
- Piper,
- in
- tow,
- she
- goes
- back
- to
- the
- beloved
- river
- house,
- where
- she
- is
- soon
- joined
- by
- Lainey
- and
- her
- two
- young
- children.
- During
- lazy
- summer
- days
- and
- magical
- nights,
- they
- reunite
- with
- bookshop
- owner
- Mimi,
- who
- is
- tangled
- with
- the
- past
- and
- its
- mysteries.
- As
- the
- three
- women
- cling
- to
- a
- fragile
- peace,
- buried
- secrets
- and
- long
- ago
- loves
- return
- like
- the
- tide.READERS
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