Off Season
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4.1 • 151 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Acclaimed novelist Anne Rivers Siddons's new novel is a stunning tale of love and loss.
For as long as she can remember, they were Cam and Lilly--happily married, totally in love with each other, parents of a beautiful family, and partners in life. Then, after decades of marriage, it ended as every great love story does...in loss. After Cam's death, Lilly takes a lone road trip to her and Cam's favorite spot on the remote coast of Maine, the place where they fell in love over and over again, where their ghosts still dance. There, she looks hard to her past--to a first love that ended in tragedy; to falling in love with Cam; to a marriage filled with exuberance, sheer life, and safety-- to try to figure out her future.
It is a journey begun with tender memories and culminating in a revelation that will make Lilly re-evaluate everything she thought was true about her husband and her marriage.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
No one does coastal melodrama like veteran Siddons (Homeplace). Lilly Constable McCall, 53, has led an enviable life "marriage and children with a successful architect, her own success as a sculptor "but husband Cam's death sends her spiraling. She returns to the coastal family cottage in Edgewater, Maine, where she spent her childhood, and where Cam died. There, she recalls the summer of 1962, and the arrival in town of new girl Peaches Davenport, who envies all Lilly has. That includes the attentions of attractive older boy Jon Lowell, who awakens grown-up feelings in Lilly's 11-year-old heart. But it's Lilly's place as the daughter of a Washington, D.C., professor and the sporadically successful painter and activist Elizabeth Constable "that makes Lilly's childhood most attractive to Peaches, and to readers. Jon may have shared her first kiss, and Cam her home and children, but it's the changing relationship between Lilly and the elusive, enigmatic Elizabeth that makes this story fresh.
Customer Reviews
I really wanted to like this book
The book started out with so many descriptors it became hard to keep my attention. I gave it more time and the story started to flow.
I hated the ending, with a little twist, and it ruined the whole book for me. This is the second of hers that I read and it will be the last.
Why can't anyone be happy in these stories?
Off season
Young love as you may or may not remember it.
Off Season
I have never been able to read her books fast enough!! Love love love her! We girls from the South, share the same blind loyalties, psychotic mothers and gut wrenching betrayals. And all along, I thought I was the only one....