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Harper
May 2012
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Featuring: Nora Cunningham
320 pages
ISBN: 0062107968
EAN: 9780062107961
Kindle: B006ID55ZS
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
Married to the youngest attorney general in Massachusetts
state history, Nora Cunningham is a picture-perfect
political wife and a doting mother. But her carefully
constructed life falls to pieces when she, along with the
rest of the world, learns of the infidelity of her husband,
Malcolm.
Humiliated and hounded by the press, Nora packs up her
daughters—Annie, seven; and Ella, twelve—and takes refuge on
Burke's Island, a craggy spit of land off the coast of
Maine. Settled by Irish immigrants, the island is a place
where superstition and magic are carried on the ocean winds,
and wishes and dreams wash ashore with the changing tides.
Nora spent her first five years on the island but has not
been back to the remote community for decades—not since that
long ago summer when her mother disappeared at sea. One
night while sitting alone on Glass Beach below the cottage
where she spent her childhood, Nora succumbs to grief, her
tears flowing into the ocean. Days later she finds an
enigmatic fisherman named Owen Kavanagh shipwrecked on the
rocks nearby. Is he, as her aunt's friend Polly suggests, a
selkie—a mythical being of island legend—summoned by her
heartbreak, or simply someone who, like Nora, is trying to
find his way in the wake of his own personal struggles?
Just as she begins to regain her balance, her daughters
embark on a reckless odyssey of their own—a journey that
will force Nora to find the courage to chart her own course
and finally face the truth about her marriage, her mother,
and her long-buried past. Married to the youngest attorney general in Massachusetts
state history, Nora Cunningham is a picture-perfect
political wife and a doting mother. But her carefully
constructed life falls to pieces when she, along with the
rest of the world, learns of the infidelity of her husband,
Malcolm. Humiliated and hounded by the press, Nora packs up her
daughters—Annie, seven; and Ella, twelve—and takes refuge on
Burke's Island, a craggy spit of land off the coast of
Maine. Settled by Irish immigrants, the island is a place
where superstition and magic are carried on the ocean winds,
and wishes and dreams wash ashore with the changing tides. Nora spent her first five years on the island but has not
been back to the remote community for decades—not since that
long ago summer when her mother disappeared at sea. One
night while sitting alone on Glass Beach below the cottage
where she spent her childhood, Nora succumbs to grief, her
tears flowing into the ocean. Days later she finds an
enigmatic fisherman named Owen Kavanagh shipwrecked on the
rocks nearby. Is he, as her aunt's friend Polly suggests, a
selkie—a mythical being of island legend—summoned by her
heartbreak, or simply someone who, like Nora, is trying to
find his way in the wake of his own personal struggles? Just as she begins to regain her balance, her daughters
embark on a reckless odyssey of their own—a journey that
will force Nora to find the courage to chart her own course
and finally face the truth about her marriage, her mother,
and her long-buried past.
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