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Renowned painter Lilli Niles is at home in her North London flat when she receives an unexpected call from her elder sister, Bea, who's at the family homestead in Whitehead, Massachusetts. Bea's husband has just died, and she'd like Lilli to fly home to attend the funeral. There are reasons Lilli moved all the way to England to escape her older sister, reasons that have kept them estranged for decades. But something in Bea's voice makes Lilli think it's time to return to the stately house in New England she loved as a child, to the memory of the beloved younger sister they both lost. With Bea more fragile than Lilli remembered, maybe she can finally forgive Bea for a long-ago betrayal that has simmered between them for nearly forty years.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781101528891 |
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Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 06/07/2011 |
Sold by: | Penguin Group |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 352 |
File size: | 325 KB |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
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Lilli Niles is at home in her North London flat when she receives an unexpected call. Her elder sister, Bea—at the family homestead in White Head, Massachusetts—has just lost her husband, and she wants Lilli to fly home for the funeral.
Lilli, a painter, is preparing for her latest gallery opening. And more to the point, there are reasons she moved all the way to England to escape her older sister, reasons that have kept them estranged for decades.
But something in Bea's voice makes Lilli think it's time to return to New England, to the stately house she loved as a child, to the memory of a shared loss—and to a time when simple sisterhood was enough to overcome betrayal and resentment. In this emotional debut, Katharine Britton explores the divergent paths we take in life—and the turns in the road that ultimately bring us back to each other.
ABOUT KATHARINE BRITTON
Katharine Britton teaches at Colby-Sawyer College in central New Hampshire. She has written three screenplays, one of which is a Moondance International Film Festival winner. She has a master's degree in creative writing from Dartmouth College and lives in Vermont.
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