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Brought up to believe that 'The Family' was the world's most vital entity, Molly Redwine is devastated when, out of the blue, her husband of more than twenty years leaves her for a younger woman. When this shock is followed by the death of her domineering mother, Molly is cast adrift. Leaving the stifling southern community where she was raised, she takes refuge with friends on Martha's Vineyard and retreats to a small cottage up-island.
Here she becomes caretaker to a very different community. Taking charge of a pair of crotchety old swans, watching over her aged and embittered landlady and beoming a reluctant nurse to her estranged and rancorous son she distances herself from her old life in Atlanta. When she learns that her own, newly widowed, father is suffering, she welcomes him to the cottage and the shape of her new life is cast. As the long Vineyard winter closes in, she braces herself to search for renewal, identity and strength...
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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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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)
* 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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- PublisherSphere
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 075151263X
- ISBN 13 9780751512632
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages480
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