Layla and the Lake

<p>Layla an aspiring poet and third string editor in Boston brings her two children to visit her former in-laws at a lakeside cottage in rural Maine. There she is greeted with wariness and there she discovers love and trouble across the water.<br />Set in the early 1980s with interludes glimpsing the past <em>Layla and the Lake</em> releases vivid emotional scenes from both the United States and Canada into an idyllic but tense setting.  Gradually a labyrinth of faulty ethics expectations and boundaries is revealed as Layla struggles to mend her messy life and protect her children’s future. The story exposes the harsh fallout from a failed marriage and a quest for writing with courage in the midst of a doomed affair that itself takes place amid a family crisis. <br /><em>Layla and the Lake</em> is the story of a family that is no longer a family. Its narrative mines the riches of the written word the awakening of conscience in even the very young and the inexplicable beauty of natural existence. <br /> </p>