Evening Ferry - Softcover

Towler, Katherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1596921889 ISBN 13: 9781596921887

Publisher: Lawson Library, 2006

Synopsis

Following on from the success of Snow Island, Katherine Towler returns to the fictional island with the second installment of this trilogy.

Thirty-two year old Rachel Shattuck has not returned to Snow Island since she attended her mother’s funeral. A year later, in the summer of 1965, she remains frightened of what she will confront at home: her mother’s absence, her father’s stern nature, and the unrealized promise of her own life now that she is divorced.

When she returns to Snow Island to care for her father after he is injured in an accident, she discovers her mother’s diaries, hidden in the house where she died a year earlier. What Rachel learns through reading her mother’s diary and becoming an islander once again reveals the truth about her family’s history and sets her own troubled life on a new course.

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About the Author

Katherine Towler is the author of the novel Snow Island. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan and graduate degrees at Johns Hopkins and Middlebury College. A freelance writer, she lives in New Hampshire.

From Publishers Weekly

The second volume of Towler's trilogy (after Snow Island) continues the story of a small and isolated New England island, picking up over 20 years after the end of the first book, in 1965. At 33, Rachel Shattuck, a recent divorcée and schoolteacher who grew up on Snow, has lived most of her adult life on the mainland. When her widowed father, Nate, has an accident, Rachel returns home for the first time since her mother's funeral the year before. Frustrated by the island's persistent insularity—despite the specter of the Vietnam War—Rachel's perspective begins to shift when she finds her mother's diaries from the 1930s and '40s. She reads of her mother's disgruntlement during the early years of her marriage, the constant money struggles, the often harsh conditions on Snow and her increasing immersion in the Catholic Church. As Rachel better comprehends her family history, she also realizes that perhaps her home is on the island after all. As with the first installment, Towler succeeds in bringing the small island community to vivid life, and the introspective characters are sympathetic. Though the novel lacks a sense of urgency, it is gracefully written, and the subtleties of family life should keep readers interested in the continuing saga. (July)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Lawson Library
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1596921889
• ISBN 13: 9781596921887
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 372