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Enchanted August

On a dreary spring day in Brooklyn, Lottie Wilkes and Rose Arbuthnot spot an ad on their children’s preschool bulletin board:  

Hopewell Cottage

Little Lost Island, Maine.

Old, pretty cottage to rent on a small island.

Springwater, blueberries, sea glass.

August.

 

Neither can afford it, but they are smitten — Lottie could use a break from her overbearing husband and Rose from her relentless twins. On impulse, they decide to take the place and attract two others to share the steep rent: Caroline Dester, an indie movie star who’s getting over a very public humiliation, and elderly Beverly Fisher, who’s recovering from heartbreaking loss. If it’s not a perfect quartet, surely it will be fine for a month in the country.

When they arrive on the island, they are transformed by the salt air; the breathtaking views; the long, lazy days; and the happy routine of lobster, corn, and cocktails on the wraparound porch. By the time of the late-August blue moon, real life and its complications have finally fallen far, far away. For on this idyllic island they gradually begin to open up: to one another and to the possibilities of lives quite different from the ones they’ve been leading. Change can’t be that hard, can it?

A modern retelling of Elizabeth von Arnim's Enchanted April.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 320
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780525429050
  • Settings
  • Maine
  • Genres
  • fiction, romance, adult, contemporary, audiobook, novels, womens, marriage, retellings
  • Release date
  • 2015