FICTION

The Bookshop at Water's End

by Patti Callahan Henry
Berkley. Jul. 2017. 352p. ISBN 9780399583117. pap. $16; ebk. ISBN 9780399583124. F
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When ER doctor Bonny Blankenship's life spirals out of control, she packs up her troubled teen daughter, invites her BFF and her two young children to join them, and heads to where her most memorable summers were spent, her family's Watersend, SC, vacation home. Piper Blankenship's bad choices have led to her mom dragging her to this small town. Will it be punishment or pleasure? Lainey McKay gets her bestie's urgent request and wants to say yes, but returning to the place where her mom disappeared without a trace years ago is a hard pill for her to swallow. With an eloquent and effective narrative, a realistic continuing theme of unbreakable relationship bonds, and a fantastic multilayered story line of secrets, regrets, and a good dose of teenage drama, this is a solid summer read.
VERDICT Fans of Southern fried fiction will devour Henry's (The Idea of Love; The Stories We Tell; And Then I Found You) latest low-country treasure of new beginnings and an old mystery.
Reviewed by Debbie Haupt, St. Charles City-Cty. Lib. Dist., St Peters, MO , Jun 01, 2017
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