THE BEACH QUILT is a summer novel about teen girls who've
been best
friends forever. Cordelia and Sarah are starting to like
boys, dating, etc.
Sarah finds out she has been very foolish and it changes
all their lives in
the small Maine ocean town. The heartbreaking novel not
only follows their
story but one of their mothers as well. Cordelia's
mother, Adelaide owns
the local quilt store. Sarah's mother, Cindy works at the
quilt store and they
are all family friends, outside of work.
Dutiful, obedient and loving almost to a fault, Sarah
Bauer is adored by
almost everyone. When she gets involved with nineteen year
old Justin,
who is quite the opposite of Sarah, the unlikely
relationship surprises many.
When she reveals that she is pregnant, a situation no one
dreamed
possible, it is felt by everyone close to her -- her
thirteen year old sister
Stevie, her mother Cindy, her father Joe, her best friend
Cordelia,
Cordelia's mother Adelaide and Adelaide's husband Jack.
They all react in
their own different ways, each according to their
relationship with Sarah.
THE BEACH QUILT follows the effects of Sarah's decision to
give her
virginity up for Justin and the after effects of that
decision. This is the heart
wrenching story of two families, intertwined but separate.
Holly Chamberlin
definitely thrusts the reader into the minds and hearts of
both families and
all their members as they maneuver through the girls'
school year and
summer. I was a bit surprised by the ending, as I really
never saw it
coming and I love when an author can do that. However, it
does seem
fitting, after really thinking about it. THE BEACH QUILT
is a story filled with love and humor
and lots of surprising twists and turns. It is not a
mystery but rather a story
that sheds light on how a pregnancy can affect a whole
family and the
people closest to them- in good ways and in bad. I
finished THE BEACH
QUILT with tears in my eyes and a huge lump in my throat.
Set in a picturesque Maine beach town, bestselling author
Holly Chamberlin's heartwarming and insightful novel
delves
into the choices and changes faced by two families over
the
course of one eventful summer. . .
Everyone in Yorktide, Maine, knows sixteen-year-old Sarah
Bauer. She's a good student and a dutiful daughter, as
well
as a beloved best friend to Cordelia Kane. So it's a
surprise to all when sensible Sarah reveals that she is
pregnant.
Though shocked, Sarah's family is supportive. But while
Sarah reconciles herself to a new and different future,
the
consequences ripple in all directions. Her father--a
proud,
old-time Mainer--tries to find more work to defray
expenses.
Her younger sister grapples with a secret she can't share.
Cordelia feels abandoned, and Cordelia's mother faces the
repercussions of a long-ago decision. As Sarah's mother,
Cindy, frets about how she'll juggle childcare with her
job
at the local quilting store, she seizes on an idea: to
band
together and make a baby quilt. Piece by piece, a
beautiful
design emerges. And as it progresses, reflecting the hopes
and cares of the women who create it, each will find
strength in the friendship and love that sustains them, in
hardship and in joy. . .
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