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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