Monday, July 30, 2012

Mailbox Monday - The Lifeboat and The Cottage at Glass Beach



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Title: The Lifeboat
Author: Charlotte Rogan
Publisher: Reagan Arthur Books (April 3, 2012)
Format: Hardcover; Pgs 288
Genre: Fiction
Source: Paperbackswap


Overview

Grace Winter, 22, is both a newlywed and a widow. She is also on trial for her life.

In the summer of 1914, the elegant ocean liner carrying her and her husband Henry across the Atlantic suffers a mysterious explosion. Setting aside his own safety, Henry secures Grace a place in a lifeboat, which the survivors quickly realize is over capacity. For any to live, some must die.

As the castaways battle the elements, and each other, Grace recollects the unorthodox way she and Henry met, and the new life of privilege she thought she'd found. Will she pay any price to keep it?





Title: The Cottage at Glass Beach
Author: Heather Barbieri
Publisher: Harper (May 15, 2012)
Format: Trade Paperback; Pgs 320
Genre: Fiction
Source: Paperbackswap


Overview

Married to the youngest attorney general in Massachusetts state history, Nora Cunningham is a picture-perfect political wife and a doting mother. But her carefully constructed life falls to pieces when she, along with the rest of the world, learns of the infidelity of her husband, Malcolm.

Humiliated and hounded by the press, Nora packs up her daughters—Annie, seven; and Ella, twelve—and takes refuge on Burke's Island, a craggy spit of land off the coast of Maine. Settled by Irish immigrants, the island is a place where superstition and magic are carried on the ocean winds, and wishes and dreams wash ashore with the changing tides.

Nora spent her first five years on the island but has not been back to the remote community for decades—not since that long ago summer when her mother disappeared at sea. One night while sitting alone on Glass Beach below the cottage where she spent her childhood, Nora succumbs to grief, her tears flowing into the ocean. Days later she finds an enigmatic fisherman named Owen Kavanagh shipwrecked on the rocks nearby. Is he, as her aunt's friend Polly suggests, a selkie—a mythical being of island legend—summoned by her heartbreak, or simply someone who, like Nora, is trying to find his way in the wake of his own personal struggles?

Just as she begins to regain her balance, her daughters embark on a reckless odyssey of their own—a journey that will force Nora to find the courage to chart her own course and finally face the truth about her marriage, her mother, and her long-buried past.

3 comments:

Mary (Bookfan) said...

Hope you enjoy them both. I liked The Cottage at Glass Beach.

Melanie said...

Whoa! The Lifeboat sounds intense. I hope you enjoy it.

My mailbox post is here.

Anonymous said...

They both look really good, enjoy!

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