The edge of summer

Viola Shipman

Book - 2022

"Devastated by the sudden death of her mother--a quiet, loving and intensely private Southern seamstress called Miss Mabel, who overflowed with pearls of Ozarks wisdom but never spoke of her own family--Sutton Douglas makes the impulsive decision to pack up and head north to the Michigan resort town where she believes she'll find answers to the lifelong questions she's had about not only her mother's past but also her own place in the world. Recalling Miss Mabel's sewing notions that were her childhood toys, Sutton buys a collection of buttons at an estate sale from Bonnie Lyons, the imposing matriarch of the lakeside community. Propelled by a handful of trinkets left behind by her mother and glimpses into the histo...ry of the magical lakeshore town, Sutton becomes tantalized by the possibility that Bonnie is the grandmother she never knew. But is she? As Sutton cautiously befriends Bonnie and is taken into her confidence, she begins to uncover the secrets about her family that Miss Mabel so carefully hid, and about the role that Sutton herself unwittingly played in it all."--Page 4 of summer.

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Subjects
Genres
Domestic fiction
Novels
Published
Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Graydon House [2022]
Language
English
Main Author
Viola Shipman (author)
Item Description
Includes reader's guide with discussion questions (in unnumbered pages at end of work).
Physical Description
357 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN
9781525811425
9781525804816
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Review by Library Journal Review

Sutton Douglas's seamstress mother was deeply loving and insistently secretive about her past, and after her death, Sutton packs up and heads for the Michigan resort town from whence her mother came to find out more about her. At an estate sale held by the recently widowed town matriarch, Bonnie Lyons, Sutton buys buttons resembling the sewing notions her mother used and draws close to Bonnie, tantalized by the possibility of connection. From the ever-popular Shipman, pseudonym for award-winning memoirist Wade Rouse.

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