The Brighter the Light by Mary Ellen Taylor
From the bestselling author of Honeysuckle Season comes an evocative dual-timeline novel detailing one woman’s journey to discover the hidden stories of her family’s seaside resort. When a shipwreck surfaces, old secrets are sure to follow. Or so goes the lore in Ivy Neale’s hometown of Nags Head, North Carolina. When Ivy inherits her family’s beachfront cottage upon her grandmother’s death, she knows returning to Nags Head means facing the best friend and the boyfriend who betrayed her years ago. But then a winter gale uncovers the shipwreck of local legend—and Ivy soon begins to stumble across more skeletons in the closet than just her own. Amid the cottage’s clutter are clues from her grandmother’s past at the enchanting seaside resort her family once owned. One fateful summer in 1950, the arrival of a dazzling singer shook the staff and guests alike—and not everyone made it to fall. As Ivy contends with broken relationships and a burgeoning romance in the present, the past threatens to sweep her away. But as she uncovers the strength of her grandmother and the women who came before her, she realizes she is like the legendary shipwreck: the sands may shift around her, but she has found her home here by the sea. Read more
Depression era families were excellent secret keepers, and the smaller, more closely knit the community, the greater the chance of those secrets never seeing the light of day. But when the grandmother who raised Ivy Neale leaves her seaside cottage to Ivy, generations of family's secrets are slowly revealed. Ruth Wheeler grew up working at her parents' Seaside Resort in Nags Head, NC. Edna and Jake were always honest with Ruth about how they came to be her parents – thanks to a woman leaving a baby wrapped in a pink blanket at one of the resort’s cottages in the dark of night. Ivy Neale left Seaside Resort and Nags Head the day after her high school graduation. Only after her grandmother, Ruth, dies does Ivy return home. Ruth's cottage is cluttered with decades of jetsam from the closed Seaside Resort and personal effects collected over a lifetime. As Ivy sorts through the remains of a bygone era, the secrets of her family’s past begin to unravel, binding Ivy to the home she abandoned in ways she never could have imagined. Told primarily from a twelve-year-old Ruth and current-day Ivy's perspectives, we learn about pivotal events from the summer of 1950 that significantly impact Ivy's life. With shipwrecks, ghosts, and summer tourists, we find that family will go to greater lengths than we could ever imagine in the name of supporting and protecting each other. Once again, this masterful storyteller lures the reader in with a laid-back, comfortable style while doling out bits of information that leave the reader hanging on every word. She makes us long for simpler times while illuminating the importance of keeping family history alive for generations to come. Poignant, mesmerizing, and full of heart, this extraordinary saga of family, legacy, and home makes for an enticing reading escape and will be one of your absolute favorite reads this year.
ASIN -> B0998WPHDS Publisher -> Montlake (July 1, 2022) Publication date -> July 1, 2022 Language -> English File size -> 6527 KB Text-to-Speech -> Enabled Screen Reader -> Supported Enhanced typesetting -> Enabled
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