The Family Beach House (Thorndike Press Large Print Clean Reads) - Hardcover

Chamberlin, Holly

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410470652 ISBN 13: 9781410470652

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2014

Synopsis

The bestselling author of "Tuscan Holiday" and "The Friends We Keep" sweeps readers to the picturesque town of Ogunquit, Maine, where a family in flux explores their ties to a beautiful beach house and to each other.

About this title

About the Author:

Holly Chamberlin was born and raised in New York City. After earning a Master s degree in English Literature from New York University and working as an editor in the publishing industry for ten years, she moved to Boston, married and became a freelance editor and writer. She and her husband now live in downtown Portland, Maine, in a restored mid-nineteenth-century brick townhouse with Betty, the most athletic, beautiful and intelligent cat in the world.

From Booklist:

The McQueen clan is reuniting in Ogunquit, Maine, at their gorgeous and rambling summer home. It's not quite a vacation, though—they're coming together for a memorial service for their matriarch, Charlotte McQueen, and her influence is still felt as each family member has brought more baggage than just their suitcases. Being a newlywed in a gay marriage isn't what worries Hannah about having children; it's her fear of turning out like Charlotte, her mother. Drifting brother Craig is unsure of his place in the family hierarchy. Bitter, angry Adam is working through a divorce and his engagement to his trophy girlfriend; and gloomy, thoughtful Tilda is too wrapped up in mourning her husband to notice much else. When their father invites his new girlfriend to the memorial service, new questions arise in the growing interest over exactly who inherits the beach house; and it isn't long before tensions boil over. Chamberlin's eighth novel is a dramatic and moving portrait of several generations of a family and each person's place within it. --Hilary Hatton

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1410470652
• ISBN 13: 9781410470652
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 515