A Week at the Shore: A Novel (English Edition)

A first-rate storyteller who creates believable, sympathetic characters who seem as familiar as your neighbors, (The Boston Globe), Barbara Delinsky presents a captivating new novel about a woman whose unexpected reunion with her estranged family forces her to confront a devastating past in A Week at the Shore. One phone call is all it takes to lure Mallory Aldiss back to her familys Rhode Island beach home. It's been twenty years since she's been gonerunning from the scandal that destroyed her parents' marriage, drove her and her two sisters apart, and crushed her relationship with the love of her life, Jack Sabathian. Twenty years during which she lived in New York, building her career as a photographer and raising her now teenage daughter Joy. But that phone call makes it clear that something has brought the past forward againsomething involving Mallorys father. Compelled by concern for her family and by Joys wish to visit her mothers childhood home, Mallory returns to Bay Bluff, where conflicting loyalties will be faced and painful truths revealed. In just seven watershed days at the Rhode Island shore, she will test the bonds of friendship and familyand discover the role that love plays in defining their lives.