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The Book of Summer

A Novel

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The Book of Summer

By: Michelle Gable
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
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Physician Bess Codman has returned to her family's Nantucket compound, Cliff House, for the first time in four years. Her great-grandparents built Cliff House almost a century before, but due to erosion, the once-grand home will soon fall into the sea. Though she's purposefully avoided the island, Bess must now pack up the house and deal with her mother, a notorious town rabble-rouser, who refuses to leave.

The Book of Summer unravels the power and secrets of Cliff House as told through the voices of Ruby Packard, a bright-eyed and idealistic newlywed on the eve of WWII, the home's definitive guestbook, and Bess herself. Bess's grandmother always said it was a house of women, and by the very last day of the very last summer at Cliff House, Bess will understand the truth of her grandmother's words in ways she never contemplated.

©2017 Michelle Gable (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Women's Fiction Summer

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Slow start good ending

I almost returned this book. I found the first half and maybe more slow and the dialogue just drug on and on. In the end, the last few hours I did begin to enjoy the story and wanted to see it through to the end. I'm still not sure if the story was worth my credit and it won't be one of my books on my 'listen to again list', but it was pleasant enough. One of the reviews said something about bad language. Now that I've made it through the book I can't recall any bad language. Maybe there was but not enough for me to remember. I am tolerant but if there are to many f-bombs, I remember and generally will be turned off by the story. This one was didn't even have enough for me to remember their existence.

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