The family beach house - holly chamberlin

The bestselling author of Tuscan Holiday and The Friends We Keep sweeps readers to the picturesque town of Ogunquit, Maine, where a family in flux explores their ties to a beautiful beach house and to each other.

In this poignant, evocative novel, bestselling author Holly Chamberlin sweeps you into the picturesque town of Ogunquit, Maine, where a family in flux explores their ties to a beautiful beach house, and to each other.

Some houses have a personality of their own.

Larchmere is that kind of place-a splendid, sprawling home with breathtaking views that open to briny Atlantic air and seabirds calls.

Its the place where Tilda McQueen OConnell grew up and now vacations each year, and where she and her three siblings-Adam, Hannah, and Craig-have gathered to commemorate the tenth anniversary of their mothers passing.

But instead of the bittersweet but relaxing reunion Tilda expected, she finds chaos.

Her fathers plan to marry a younger woman has thrown the fate of the beach house into uncertainty.

For Tilda, the stakes seem the highest.

Alone and vulnerable two years after her husbands death, she sees Larchmere as not just a cherished part of her history, but her eventual refuge from the world.

Faced with losing that legacy, Tilda must embrace an unknown future.

And all the McQueens must reconcile their shared, sometimes painful past-and learn how to love one another even when it means forging a life apart.

A dramatic and moving portrait of several generations of a family and each persons place within it.

--Booklist An enjoyable summer read, but its more.

It is a novel for all seasons that adds to the enduring excitement of Ogunquit.

-The Maine Sunday Telegram.