Courtney sullivans novel, three generations of a familys women take guilt, secrets and old wounds on a beach retreat. The air was too buggy, she said, the water too cold. Would her story of three generations of kelleher women who find themselves back at their summer homeall facing their own secret hardships and challengesdeliver. Their beachfront property, won on a barroom bet after the war, sits on three acres of sand and pine nestled between stretches of rocky coast, with one tree bearing the initials a. Her cottage in maine was the only thing that set her apart from everyone else, the only unordinary thing about her. Courtney sullivans commencement presents it, the real power of a womens college has. When her older daughter, kathleen, ever the wet blanket, turned twelve or thirteen, she declared that she hated going to maine. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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