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A Simple Thing by Kathleen McCleary

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Also by Kathleen McCleary:

Leaving Haven, October 2013
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A Simple Thing, August 2012
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House & Home, July 2008
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A Simple Thing
Kathleen McCleary

William Morrow
August 2012
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Featuring: Susannah Delaney; Betty Pavalak
304 pages
ISBN: 0062106236
EAN: 9780062106230
Kindle: B0073FLR0M
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Women's Fiction Contemporary

How far would you go to protect your children? Would you do it at the expense of your marriage? How far would you go to protect yourself?

For Susannah Delaney, the answers lie thousands of miles away, off the northwest corner of Washington state. When Susannah discovers her young son is being bullied and her adolescent daughter is spinning out of control, she moves them to remote Sounder Island in the San Juans to live off the grid for a year. Susannah hopes to save her children from the risks they've encountered at home, and to come to terms with her own haunted past.

But the move threatens her marriage to the man she's loved since childhood, and her very sense of self.

For Betty Pavalak, who first moved to Sounder to save her own troubled marriage, the island has been a haven for more than fifty years. But Betty also knows the guilt of living with choices she made long ago and actions that cannot be undone.The unlikely friendship between Susannah and Betty ignites a journey of self-discovery for both women that brings them both home to what they love most. A SIMPLE THING moves beyond friendship, children, and marriages to look deeply into what it means to love and forgive--yourself.

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