![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nora has not been back to the remote community for decades-not since the summer her mother disappeared at sea. ![]() Settled by Irish immigrants, the island is a place where superstition and magic are carried on the ocean winds, and wishes and dreams wash ashore with the changing tides. Humiliated and hounded by the press, Nora packs up her young daughters and takes refuge on Burke's Island, a craggy spit of land off the coast of Maine. But her life falls to pieces when she, along with the rest of the world, learns of the infidelity of her husband, Malcolm. Married to the youngest attorney general in Massachusetts history, Nora Cunningham is a picture-perfect political wife and mother. Heather Barbieri follows her acclaimed Gaelic-tinged drama The Lace Makers of Glenmara with the resonant tale of a woman who, in the wake of scandal, flees to a remote Maine island to reconnect with her past-and to come to terms with the childhood tragedy that has haunted her for a lifetime. Barbieri's beautiful writing and beguiling world view revel in the realities and the mysteries of the sea and of life itself." - Nancy Thayer, New York Times bestselling author of Heat Wave "The Cottage at Glass Beach, an enchanting novel about mothers and daughters on an isolated island, is a romantic, delicious read. ![]()
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