Purchase
Harper Paperbacks
January 2019
On Sale: December 31, 2018
384 pages
ISBN: 0062673351
EAN: 9780062673350
Kindle: B072MF2ZM6
Paperback / e-Book
Add to Wish List
Women's Fiction Psychological
From well-loved women’s fiction writer Kristyn Kusek Lewis
comes a breakout novel about a woman moving to a small
community and uncovering the many secrets that hide behind
closed doors—perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty and Elin
Hilderbrand. Greyhill, Virginia—refuge of old money, old mansions, and
old-fashioned ideas about who belongs and who doesn’t—just
got a few new residents. When Bess Warner arrives in town
with her husband Cole and their kids, she thinks she knows
what to expect. Sure, moving to Cole’s small hometown means
she’ll have to live across the street from her
mother-in-law, and yes, there’s going to be a lot to learn
as they take over Cole’s family’s inn-keeping business, but
Bess believes it will be the perfect escape from Washington.
She needs it to be. After losing her White House
job under a cloud of scandal, she hardly knows who she is
anymore. But Bess quickly discovers that fitting in is easier said
than done. Instead of the simpler life she’d banked on, she
finds herself preoccupied by barbed questions from gossipy
locals and her own worries over how her twins are
acclimating at the town’s elite private school. When the
opportunity to write an article for the Washington
Post’s lifestyle supplement falls into Bess’s lap, she
thinks it might finally be her opportunity to find her
footing here…even if the subject of the piece is Greyhill’s
most notorious resident. Susannah “Cricket” Lane, fruit of the town’s deepest-rooted
family tree, is a special sort of outsider, having just
returned to Greyhill from New York after a decades-long
hiatus. The long absence has always been the subject of
suspicion, not that the eccentric Susannah cares what anyone
thinks; as a matter of fact, she seems bent on antagonizing
as many people as possible. But is Susannah being sincere
with Bess—or is she using their strangely intense interview
sessions for her to further an agenda that includes peeling
back the layers of Greyhill’s darkest secrets? As Bess discovers unsettling truths about Susannah and
Greyhill at large, ones that bring her into the secrets of
prior generations, she begins to learn how difficult it is
to start over in a town that runs on talk, and that
sometimes, the best way to find yourself is to uncover what
everyone around you is hiding....
Comments
No comments posted.
Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!
| 
© 2003-2025 off-the-edge.net
all rights reserved Privacy Policy