The Summer of Good Intentions: A Novel

The Summer of Good Intentions: A Novel

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Cape Cod summers are supposed to remain reassuringly the same, but everything falls apart when three sisters and their families come together for their annual summer vacationâ€”and they are carrying more secrets than suitcases.

Maggie is the oldest. She feels responsible for managing the summer house and making sure everything is as it always has been. But sheâ€™s hurt that her parentsâ€™ recent divorce has destroyed the familyâ€™s comfortable summer routines, and her own kids seem to be growing up at high speed. Is it too late to have another baby?

Jess is the middle sister. She loves her job but isnâ€™t as passionate about her marriage. Sheâ€™s not sure she can find the courage to tell Maggie what sheâ€™s doneâ€”much less talk to her husband about it.

Virgie is the youngest, her dadâ€™s favorite. Sheâ€™s always been the career girl, but now thereâ€™s a man in her life. Her television job on the west coast is beyond stressful, and itâ€™s taking its toll on herâ€”emotionally and physically. Sheâ€™s counting on this vacation to erase the symptoms sheâ€™s not talking about.

The Herington girls are together again, with their husbands and kids, for another summer in the familyâ€™s old Cape Cod house. When their mother, Gloria, announces sheâ€™s coming for an unscheduled visitâ€”with her new boyfriendâ€”no one is more surprised than their father, Arthur, who has not quite gotten over his divorce. Still, everyone manages to navigate the challenges of living grown-up lives in close quarters, until an accident reveals a new secret that brings everyone together in heartbreakâ€¦and then healing.

Poignant, compelling, and so real that you could shake the sand out of the pages, The Summer of Good Intentions is by a rising star who aims her fiction square at the heart of readers who love Elin Hilderbrand, Dorothea Benton Frank, and Mary Kay Andrews.
Country USA
Manufacturer Atria Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-07-07
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Atria Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-07-07
Format	Kindle eBook