Haven Point : A Novel

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INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER"The book equivalent of a beach getaway." PopSugar"A stunning debut." BookRiotThe instant national bestseller about the generations of a family that spends summers in a seaside enclave on Maine's rocky coastline, for fans of Elin Hilderbrand and Beatriz Williams.1944: Maren Larsen is a blonde beauty from a small Minnesota farming town, determined to do her part to help the war effortand to see the world beyond her familys cornfields. As a cadet nurse at Walter Reed Medical Center, shes swept off her feet by Dr. Oliver Demarest, a handsome Boston Brahmin whose family spends summers in an insular community on the rocky coast of Maine.1970: As the nation grapples with the ongoing conflict in Vietnam, Oliver and Maren are grappling with their fiercely independent seventeen-year-old daughter, Annie, who has fallen for a young man they dont approve of. Before the summer is over a terrible tragedy will strike the Demarestsand in the aftermath, Annie vows never to return to Haven Point.2008: Annies daughter, Skye, has arrived in Maine to help scatter her mothers ashes. Maren knows that her granddaughter inherited Annies view of Haven Point: despite the wild beauty and quaint customs, the regattas and clambakes and sing-alongs, she finds the placeand the peoplesnobbish and petty. But Maren also knows that Annie never told Skye the whole truth about what happened during that fateful summer.Over seven decades of a changing America, through wars and storms, betrayals and reconciliations, Virginia Hume's Haven Point explores what it means to belong to a place, and to a family, which holds as tightly to its traditions as it does its secrets.