Home for the Summer
  • Published: 3 May 2022
  • ISBN: 9781496737274
  • Imprint: Kensington
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $29.99

Home for the Summer

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In bestselling author Holly Chamberlin’s poignant novel, a mother and daughter escape to a beautiful coastal town in Maine to find healing in the wake of heartbreaking loss.

In bestselling author Holly Chamberlin’s poignant novel, a mother and daughter escape to a beautiful coastal town in Maine to find healing in the wake of heartbreaking loss.

The journey to Yorktide, Maine, was always a happy one for Frieda and Aaron Braithwaite and their two daughters. Frieda loves her mother’s old farmhouse, and the girls have grown closer there, sharing a bedroom and spinning stories into the night. But that was before—when tragedy was something that happened to other families.
 
Since the car crash that claimed the lives of her husband, and their younger daughter, Frieda has struggled emotionally and financially. Bella, now seventeen, is withdrawn and wary, and Frieda fears losing her too.
 
At her mother’s urging, Frieda decides to return to Yorktide with Bella for the summer. Bella gets a job in a local shop, and little by little edges her way back into the world. But it’s the unexpected connections they make—with a former schoolmate, a troubled teenage girl, and Frieda’s estranged father—that will spur them to find healing amid bittersweet memories, and discover if their bond is strong enough to guide them back to hope once more.
  • Published: 3 May 2022
  • ISBN: 9781496737274
  • Imprint: Kensington
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $29.99
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Summer Roommates
A Summer Love Affair
Barefoot in the Sand
All Our Summers
A Wedding on the Beach
The Summer Nanny
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Praise for Home for the Summer

Praise for Holly Chamberlin's Novels:

“A thoughtful novel.” —ShelfAwareness on Summer Friends

“A dramatic and moving portrait of several generations of a family and each person's place within it.” —Booklist on The Family Beach House

“A great summer read but with substance. It will find a wide audience in its exploration of sisterhood, family, and loss.” —Library Journal on Summer With My Sisters

“An emotional ride.” —SpaWeek on The Beach Quilt

"Nostalgia over real-life friendships lost and regained pulls readers into the story." —USA TODAY on Summer Friends

“The Summer Everything Changed will draw you in; this kind of abusive relationship truly can happen to anyone, and readers will find themselves trying to read faster and faster in order to keep up with Isobel’s rapidly deteriorating relationship. Well-written and full of engaging characters, this is a great novel that is worth picking up.”
—The San Francisco Book Review on The Summer Everything Changed

“Friends are forever in this exploration of bullying—a troubling hot-button topic that comes into shocking focus here for two families torn apart by a heartless clique of mean girls…Chamberlin is pitch-perfect.” —Publishers Weekly on Last Summer

"An enjoyable summer read, but it's more.  It is a novel for all seasons that adds to the enduring excitement of Ogunquit." —The Maine Sunday Telegram on Summer Friends