The Northern Reach

A Novel

De: W.S. Winslow

Narrado por: Abby Craden, Mark Bramhall

A heart-wrenching first novel about the power of place and family ties, the weight of the stories we choose to tell, and the burden of those we hide

Frozen in grief after the loss of her son at sea, Edith Baines stares across the water at a schooner, under full sail yet motionless in the winter wind and surging tide of the Northern Reach. Edith seems to be hallucinating. Or is she? Edith’s boat-watch opens The Northern Reach, set in the coastal town of Wellbridge, Maine, where townspeople squeeze a living from the perilous bay or scrape by on the largesse of the summer folk and whatever they can cobble together, salvage, or grab.

At the center of town life is the Baines family, land-rich, cash-poor descendants of town founders, along with the ne’er-do-well Moody clan, the Martins of Skunk Pond, and the dirt farming, bootlegging Edgecombs. Over the course of the twentieth century, the families intersect, interact, and intermarry, grappling with secrets and prejudices that span generations, opening new wounds and reckoning with old ghosts.

W. S. Winslow's The Northern Reach is a breathtaking debut about the complexity of family, the cultural legacy of place, and the people and experiences that shape us.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books

“Is there anything better than getting to walk through a small and unfamiliar town and peer through the windows into the lives lived in the houses there? The Northern Reach gives you that rich and satisfying treat. Here is a Maine as various and stark as the pull of tides in every human heart.” (Sarah Blake, author of The Guest Book)

©2021 W.S. Winslow (P)2021 Macmillan Audio

Pitch Perfect Downeast Maine

I so loved this book. The narrators were wonderful and the characters felt very real. If you like Olive Kitteridge, you will adore this!

Hilariously depressing

Mark Bramhall nailed the Maine "Downeast" accent. As a 63 year old native of Maine, I have known many people like the characters in Winslow's book. However, not everyone in Maine lives by the Saturday night pot luck suppers at the local grange hall. It was amusing and sad to read, but very well done.