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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A poignant and tender story of love, loss, passion, and the fragile threads that bind families together from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale
“A beautifully simple, deeply compassionate story.”—Diana Gabaldon
Annie Colwater's only child has just left home for school abroad. On…
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This story, about a woman sending her daughter away to college and dealing with her husband’s infidelity at the same time—two wildly different kinds of heartbreak—kept me turning the pages.
As Annie says goodbye to her daughter, visions of my daughter’s college days came flooding back to me. When Annie escapes to her childhood home, Mystic, an old Pacific Northwest logging town, its scenery brought back memories of my childhood when my family drove the Redwood Highway and camped in the woods next to rivers and the ocean.
But the most remarkable part of the book is the twist in…
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