The Bookshop at Water's End

The Bookshop at Water’s End is a juicy summer read about family secrets, forgotten friendships and the power of books to change our lives.”—Jane Green, New York Times bestselling author of The Sunshine SistersPraise for Patti Callahan Henry and her novels   “A Southern woman’s journey into truth. In fact, it’s so good I wish I’d written it myself!”—Dorothea Benton Frank, New York Times bestselling author of Same Beach, Next Year  “The Bookshop at Water’s End carries u

As the three women cling to a fragile peace, buried secrets and long ago loves return like the tide.READERS GUIDE INSIDE. 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. Until the night that changed everything, the night that Lainey’s mother disappeared. 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. 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. 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. During lazy summer days and magical nights, they reunite with bookshop owner Mimi, who is tangled with the past and its mysteries

Something for Everyone! To be an Emergency Nurse physician requires finely honed skills that must occur automatically but still leave room for exceptional circumstances that just might change one’s normal protocol. So when Bonnie Blankenship’s treatment of a patient results in a disaster, she takes it very personally. Of course, she doesn’t realize t. K. Annexstad said Great Read!. Another GREAT read from Patti Henry!!!. "Wonderful as always" according to SparkyMac. PCH is one of my favorite authors. This is such an enjoyable story.

Patti Callahan Henry is a New York Times bestselling author whose novels include The Idea of Love, The Stories We Tell, And Then I Found You, Coming Up for Air, The Perfect Love Song, Driftwood Summer, The Art of Keeping Secrets, Between the Tides, When Light Breaks, Where the River Runs and Losing the Moon. Short-listed for the Townsen