Up Island - Hardcover

Siddons, Anne Rivers

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060176156 ISBN 13: 9780060176150

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1997

Synopsis

The bestselling woman's read of the summer of 1997 is out in paperback to rule the charts for the summer of 1998. Up Island, Anne Rivers Siddons's bestselling title in recent years, spent 17 weeks on the New York Times list, seven weeks on the Wall Street Journal list, and 15 weeks on Publisher Weekly's list. This story of an Atlanta woman who retreats to Martha's Vineyard to redefine her life will make the paperback of Up Island the hottest read on the beach. Molly Bell Redwine has always been a model of success and contentment. But when her husband of 20 years leaves her for a younger woman and her mother dies, her family scatters to the four winds and Molly is set adrift. Needing to come to terms with this cataclysm and figure out who she is now, Molly visits friends on Martha's Vineyard and eventually purchases a small abandoned cottage on a remote up-island pond. Seasons change and it is there, as she tends a pair of crotchety old swans and makes new friends, that she settles into a new life, a new love, and a new self. "One doesn't read Anne Rivers Siddons's books; one dwells in them". -- Chicago Tribune

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Review:

She breaks your heart, knocks your socks off, and writes with such astonishing lyrical beauty that you will want to read it aloud to everyone you ever loved (Pat Conroy)

Siddons captures the richness and complications of female relationships in a way few writers have done. (COSMOPOLITAN)

This bestselling American novelist writes with such lyrical beauty and clarity that her book lingers in the mind long after it has been read (HOME AND COUNTRY)

UP ISLAND is wonderful. Witty, soothing and with acute observations into the human state, it is peppered with intriguing characters and holiday-brochure descriptions of Martha's Vineyard that make you fall in love with the place. So put your feet up and (DORSET EVENING ECHO)

Book Description:

* Crisis in a middle-aged woman's life leads her eventually to find a better quality of life - and a new man...

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0060176156
• ISBN 13: 9780060176150
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 342