The Bookshop at Water's End

By Val Chadwick Bagley

Book Overview

The women who spent their childhood summers in a small southern town discover it harbors secrets as lush as the marshes that surround it... Bonny Blankenship's most treasured memories are of idyllic summers spent in Watersend, South Carolina, with her best friend, Lainey McKay. Amid the sand dunes and oak trees draped with Spanish moss, they swam and wished for happy-ever-afters, then escaped to the local bookshop to read and whisper in the glorious cool silence. Until the night that changed everything, the night that Lainey's mother disappeared. Now, in her early fifties, Bonny is desperate to clear her head after a tragic mistake threatens her career as an emergency room doctor, and her marriage crumbles around her. With her troubled teenage daughter, Piper, in tow, she goes back to the beloved river house, where she is soon joined by Lainey and her two young children. During lazy summer days and magical nights, they reunite with bookshop owner Mimi, who is tangled with the past and its mysteries. As the three women cling to a fragile peace, buried secrets and long ago loves return like the tide. READERS GUIDE INSIDE

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399583114
• ISBN13: 9780399583117
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

On Grief and Reason: An essential book difficult to find at a reasonable price.

I haven't read this yet, only quotes. I have read poetry by Brodsky, and have also yet to read "Runaway Soul." This is an essential part of my education, and I was so happy to find it and I anticipate reading it with joy.

Brodsky on Frost

I do not know whether I will be able to read the pieces in On Grief and Reason. I had read the title essay, which says that Frost is rough and goes through his "Home Burial," in the New Yorker, I think, and saved it, and it had deteriorated. I bought the book for the essay. It is that important, Brodsky is that important. It is the best single reading of a Frost poem that I have ever seen, but good-better-bests is not...