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Also by Meg Waite Clayton:

Typewriter Beach, July 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
The Postmistress of Paris, December 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
The Last Train to London, September 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
The Last Train to London, September 2019
Paperback / e-Book
Beautiful Exiles, February 2019
Trade Size / e-Book
Beautiful Exiles, August 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
The Wednesday Daughters B00BABT9V4 R, July 2014
Paperback
The Wednesday Daughters, July 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
The Four Ms. Bradwells, December 2011
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
The Wednesday Sisters, June 2008
Hardcover

THE WEDNESDAY DAUGHTERS
By: Meg Waite Clayton

Ballantine Books
July 2013
On Sale: July 16, 2013
304 pages
ISBN: 0345530284
EAN: 9780345530288
Kindle: B00BABT9V4
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction

In the tradition of Kristin Hannah and Karen Joy Folwer, Meg Waite Clayton, bestselling author of The Wednesday Sisters, returns with an enthralling new novel of mothers, daughters, and the secrets and dreams passed down through generations.

It is early evening when Hope Tantry arrives at the small cottage in England’s pastoral Lake District where her mother, Ally, spent the last years of her life. Ally—one of a close-knit group of women who called themselves the Wednesday Sisters—had used the cottage as a writer’s retreat while she worked on her unpublished biography of Beatrix Potter, yet Hope knows little about her mother’s time there. Traveling with Hope are friends Anna Page and Julie, first introduced as little girls in The Wednesday Sisters, now grown women grappling with issues of a different era. They’ve come to help Hope sort through her mother’s personal effects, yet what they find is a tangled family history—one steeped in Lake District lore.

Hope finds a stack of Ally’s old notebooks tucked away in a hidden drawer, all written in a mysterious code. As she, Julie, and Anna Page try to decipher Ally’s writings—the reason for their encryption, their possible connection to the Potter manuscript—they are forced to confront their own personal struggles: Hope’s doubts about her marriage, Julie’s grief over losing her twin sister, Anna Page’s fear of commitment in relationships. And as the real reason for Ally’s stay in England comes to light, Hope, Julie, and Anna Page reach a new understanding about the enduring bonds of family, the unwavering strength of love, and the inescapable pull of the past.