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Gable, Michelle,

The book of summer : a novel / Michelle Gable. - First edition. - New York Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2017. - 408 pages ; 25 cm

"Physician Bess Codman has returned to her family's Nantucket compound, Cliff House, for the first time in four years. Her great-grandparents built Cliff House almost a century before, but due to erosion, the once-grand home will soon fall into the sea. Though she's purposefully avoided the island, Bess must now pack up the house and deal with her mother, a notorious town rabble-rouser, who refuses to leave. The Book of Summer unravels the power and secrets of Cliff House as told through the voices of Ruby Packard, a bright-eyed and idealistic newlywed on the eve of WWII, the home's definitive guestbook, and Bess herself. Bess's grandmother always said it was a house of women, and by the very last day of the very last summer at Cliff House, Bess will understand the truth of her grandmother's words in ways she never contemplated. The bestselling author of The Paris Apartment and I'll See You in Paris, Michelle Gable now transports readers to Nantucket"--

ISBN: 9781250070623 1250070627 9781250153173 1250153174

LCCN: 2017001070

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Nantucket Island (Mass.)--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction

LC Class. No.: PS3607.A237 / B66 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.6