Following the success of IF YOU ONLY KNEW and ON SECOND
THOUGHT comes the highly anticipated new novel by New York
Times bestselling author Higgins; a funny and bittersweet
story of a woman who returns to her hometown after a
decadeβs absence hoping to resuscitate her relationship with
her family, only to discover that her homecoming is not as
welcome as she had imagined.
Itβs been over a decade since Nora left her hometown of
Scupper Island, Maine, and very seldom looked back. Sheβs
carved out a successful life in Boston where no one knows
her as the awkward girl with the delinquent sister and the
dad who left, but a not-as-dramatic-as-it-sounds brush with
death has her taking stock of her life. Inspired to
reconnect with her prickly mother and snarky teenage niece,
Nora returns home for the summer, where sheβs forced to face
the people sheβs spent the last ten years trying to avoid,
and where some revelations about her family could either
heal her, or send her scrambling back to Boston on the next
ferry.