The cottage at Glass Beach
Subtitle: a novel
By: Heather Barbieri
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780062107961
Subjects: Scandals; Politicians' spouses; Fiction; Self-realization; Adultery; Mothers and daughters; Islands; Marital conflict
Description: Learning of the infidelity of her husband, Nora Cunningham packs up her daughters--Annie, seven; and Ella, twelve--and takes refuge on Burke's Island, a craggy spit of land off the coast of Maine where her mother disappeared at sea long ago. Just as Nora begins to regain her balance, her daughters embark on a reckless odyssey of their own--forcing Nora to finally face the truth about her marriage, her mother, and her long-buried past --