Enchanted August: A Novel

Enchanted August: A Novel

<b>“In a rented seaside cottage in Maine, four women recharge, regroup and eat plenty of lobster far away from their pressure-filled lives. A charming, thoroughly engrossing novel that’s the next best thing to being there.” – <i>People Magazine</i><br> </b><br> On a dreary spring day in Brooklyn, Lottie Wilkes and Rose Arbuthnot spot an ad on their children’s preschool bulletin board:<br>  <br> <i>Hopewell Cottage</i><br> <i>Little Lost Island, Maine.</i><br> <i>Old, pretty cottage to rent on a small island.</i><br> <i>Springwater, blueberries, sea glass.</i><br> <i>August.</i><br>  <br> Neither can afford it, but they are smitten—Lottie could use a break from her overbearing husband and Rose from her relentless twins. On impulse, they decide to take the place and attract two others to share the steep rent: Caroline Dester, an indie movie star who’s getting over a very public humiliation, and elderly Beverly Fisher, who’s recovering from heartbreaking loss. If it’s not a perfect quartet, surely it will be fine for a month in the country. <br>  <br> When they arrive on the island, they are transformed by the salt air; the breathtaking views; the long, lazy days; and the happy routine of lobster, corn, and cocktails on the wraparound porch. By the time of the late-August blue moon, real life and its complications have finally fallen far, far away. For on this idyllic island they gradually begin to open up: to one another and to the possibilities of lives quite different from the ones they’ve been leading. Change can’t be that hard, can it? <br>  <br> With a cast of endearingly imperfect characters and set against the beauty of a gorgeous New England summer, <i>Enchanted August</i> is a sparkling summer debut that brilliantly updates the beloved classic <i>The Enchanted April</i> in a novel of love and reawakening that is simply irresistible and offers readers a universal fantasy: one glorious month away from it all