num_pages: 368
description: This is the hopeful book we all need right now. I loved it!Emily Giffin #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lies That BindAs Seen on the TODAY SHOW A Southern Living Best Beach Read * A PopSugar Best Book of May * An Us Weekly Summer Beach Staple * A Frolic Under-the-Radar Book of May * An OK Magazine Best Summer Beach Read * An EW.com Best Book of Spring * A Country Living Can't Miss Beach Read * A LibraryReads Pick for May * An Emily Giffin Book Club pickSometimes all you need is one person to really see you.Piper Parrish's life on Frick Islanda tiny remote town smack in the middle of the Chesapeake Bayis nearly perfect. Well aside from one pesky Her darling husband Tom is dead. When Tom's crab boat capsized and his body wasn't recovered Piper rocked to the core did a most peculiar carried on as if her husband was not only still alive but right there beside her cooking him breakfast walking him to the docks each morning meeting him for their standard Friday night dinner date at the One-Eyed Crab. And what were the townspeople to do but go along with their beloved widowed Piper? Anders Caldwells career is not going well. A young ambitious journalist hed rather hoped hed be a national award-winning podcaster by now rather than writing fluff pieces for a small town newspaper. But when he gets an assignment to travel to the remote Frick Island and cover their boring annual Cake Walk fundraiser he stumbles upon a much more fascinating an entire town pretending to see and interact with a man who does not actually exist. Determined its the career-making story hes been needing for his podcast Anders returns to the island to begin covert research and spend more time with the enigmatic Piperbut he has no idea out of all the lives hes about to upend its his that will change the most.USA Today bestselling author Colleen Oakley delivers an unforgettable love story about an eccentric community a grieving widow and an outsider who slowly learns that sometimes faith is more important than the facts.
language: English
title: The Invisible Husband of Frick Island
publisher: Berkley