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Humiliated by her husband's infidelity, 40-year-old Nora Keane, married to the youngest attorney general in Massachusetts, takes refuge with her maternal aunt on Burke's Island off the coast of Maine where she finally finds the courage to take charge of her own life. (This title was previously listed in Forecast.) 75,000 first printing.

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"Heather Barbieri's The Cottage at Glass Beach is a moving, heartfelt story told with vivid description. Open the book and listen--you'll hear the waves crashing onto the shore."--Sarah Jio, author of "The Bungalow" and "The Violets of March"

"The Lace Makers of Glenmara is a charming, moving story, written with a delicate touch."--Joanne Harris, author of "Chocolat" and "The Girl with No Shadow", on "The Lace Makers of Glenmara"

"This mystical new novel is a must read for fans of Sarah Addison Allen's 'Garden Spells.'"--Tara Quinn, "Cleveland Plain Dealer"

"Heather Barbieri's "The Cottage at Glass Beach" is a moving, heartfelt story told with vivid description. Open the book and listen--you'll hear the waves crashing onto the shore."--Sarah Jio, author of "The Bungalow" and "The Violets of March"

""The Lace Makers of Glenmara" is a charming, moving story, written with a delicate touch."--Joanne Harris, author of "Chocolat" and "The Girl with No Shadow", on "The Lace Makers of Glenmara"

"A must read for fans of Sarah Addison Allen's 'Garden Spells.'"--Tara Quinn, "Cleveland Plain Dealer"

Where Barbieri shines is in her depiction of the microcosm of the island and in the strong links between the generations. Nora discover that Everything is connected. The geography of the island, of the soul, and Barbieri makes that connection real. --Melinda Bargreen, "Seattle Times""

A must read for fans of Sarah Addison Allen s Garden Spells. --Tara Quinn, "Cleveland Plain Dealer""

Barbieri s mix of fairy tale and family drama in a picturesque seaside resort makes her third novel a terrific beach read. --"Library Journal""

Part seaside fairytale, part exploration of real-world tensions....Let yourself be transported to Burke s Island, a salt-tinged place steeped in legends of selkies and shipwrecks, but also full of bruised and hopeful people making their wayward, human ways toward happiness. --Marisa de los Santos, author of "Falling Together" and "Belong to Me""
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The Cottage at Glass Beach

Married to the youngest attorney general in Massachusetts state history, Nora Cunningham is a picture-perfect political wife and a doting mother. But her carefully constructed life falls to pieces when she, along with the rest of the world, learns of the infidelity of her husband, Malcolm.

Humiliated and hounded by the press, Nora packs up her daughters—Annie, seven; and Ella, twelve—and takes refuge on Burke's Island, a craggy spit of land off the coast of Maine. Settled by Irish immigrants, the island is a place where superstition and magic are carried on the ocean winds, and wishes and dreams wash ashore with the changing tides.

Nora spent her first five years on the island but has not been back to the remote community for decades—not since that long ago summer when her mother disappeared at sea. One night while sitting alone on Glass Beach below the cottage where she spent her childhood, Nora succumbs to grief, her tears flowing into the ocean. Days later she finds an enigmatic fisherman named Owen Kavanagh shipwrecked on the rocks nearby. Is he, as her aunt's friend Polly suggests, a selkie—a mythical being of island legend—summoned by her heartbreak, or simply someone who, like Nora, is trying to find his way in the wake of his own personal struggles?

Just as she begins to regain her balance, her daughters embark on a reckless odyssey of their own—a journey that will force Nora to find the courage to chart her own course and finally face the truth about her marriage, her mother, and her long-buried past.

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  • PublisherHarperCollins
  • Publication date2012
  • ISBN 10 0062107968
  • ISBN 13 9780062107961
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages302
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