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Siddons, Anne Rivers Up Island ISBN 13: 9780061096990

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Ever since childhood, Molly Bell Redwine was taught by her mother that 'The Family' was the world's most vital entity. Its maintenance is Molly's special talent until she finds that, without warning, a family can change. Her husband of more than twenty years leaves her for a younger woman, her domineering mother dies, and her Atlanta family scatters. In a heartbeat Molly is set adrift.


Devastated by her husband's lies, haunted by dreams of her mother, and so full of anger that it frightens her, Molly takes refuge on Martha's Vineyard. When the season finishes, she stays on, renting a small cottage by a remote Up Island pond. Here she is caretaker to her bitter, ageing landlady, and nurse to the woman's ill and estranged son, Dennis. If Molly thinks herself angry with the world, she meets her match in him.


As Molly's stay Up Island widens the distance between herself and her old life in Atlanta, she receives news that her newly widowed father is suffering. She invites him to stay with her at the cottage, and the shape of her new life is cast as she keeps watch over Dennis, her landlady, her father and a pair of crotchety old swans...

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

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  • PublisherHarper Fiction
  • Publication date1998
  • ISBN 10 0061096997
  • ISBN 13 9780061096990
  • BindingPaperback
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