The Hills at Home
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Anchor
Published: June 8, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9781400030965
Subjects: Fiction; Fiction - General; General; Fiction / General
First sentence: OUTSIDE, THE NIGHT blew perfectly foul and all of the Hills had stayed home.
Description: While always well-stocked with clean sheets, Lily Hill is not expecting visitors. At least not in the numbers that descend upon her genteely dilapidated New England ancestral home in the summer of '89. Brother Harvey arrives first, thrice-widowed and eager for company; then perennially self-dramatizing niece Ginger and her teenaged daughter Betsy; then Alden, just laid-off from Wall Street, with his wife Becky, and their rowdy brood of four. As summer fades into fall, it becomes clear that no one intends to leave. But just as Lily's industrious hospitality gives way to a somewhat strained domestic routine, the Hill clan must face new challenges together.