The Captain's Daughter

From the author of Vacationland comes an emotionally gripping novel about a woman who returns to her hometown in coastal Maine and finds herself pondering the age-old question of what could have been.Filled with humor insight summer cocktails and gorgeous sunsets...An ideal summer read. Redbook When Eliza Barnes was growing up in the lobstering village of Little Harbor Maine she could haul a trap and row a skiff with the best of thembut shed always known shed leave that life behind. Now shes settled in the high-society circle of an affluent Massachusetts town with her husband and two daughters. But when her fathera widowed lobstermaninjures himself in a boating accident Eliza returns to her hometown to come to his aid. When she arrives in Maine she discovers her fathers situation is more dire than he let on. Her homecoming is further complicated by the reemergence of her first loveand the repercussions of their shared secret. Then Eliza meets Mary Brown a seventeen-year-old local who is at a crossroad of her own and Eliza cant help but wonder what her life would have been like if she''d stayed. By turns poignant incisive and laugh-out-loud funny The Captains Daughter is an unforgettable novel about the choices we make and the consequences we face in their wake.