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Plume
July 2007
On Sale: June 26, 2007
288 pages
ISBN: 0452288347
EAN: 9780452288348
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Women's Fiction
Can a mother reclaim the daughter she lost? Six years ago, Polly Birdswell—drinking and deeply unhappy—
made a decision that changed her life forever. Believing
she could spare her young daughter a legacy of self-
destruction, she left her husband and child and moved north
to a coastal town in Maine. There, close to Bride Island,
the beloved family retreat she considers her true home, she
set about getting sober and remaking her life. Now Polly desperately wants seven-year-old Monroe back and
is determined to prove—to herself especially—she's a stable
and loving mother. At the same time, a sudden decision to
sell Bride Island unleashes a wave of family greed that
endangers the island's future. As Polly and her siblings
try to claim ownership of what they love, they discover
some things can never truly be owned, and Polly must again
ask herself what she's willing to relinquish. Beautifully
written and emotionally complex, Bride Island is a poignant
debut novel about love, motherhood, and the haunting and
sometimes conflicting pulls of family and the places that
shape us.
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