Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Heather Barbieri, the author of The Lace Makers of Glenmara, returns with the enthralling
tale of a woman who, in the wake of scandal, flees to a remote island
off the coast of Maine.
Married to the youngest attorney general in Massachusetts state history,
Nora Cunningham is a picture-perfect political wife and a doting
mother. But her carefully constructed life falls to pieces when she,
along with the rest of the world, learns of the infidelity of her
husband, Malcolm. Humiliated and hounded by the press, Nora packs up her
daughters—Annie, seven; and Ella, twelve—and takes refuge on Burke’s
Island, off the coast of Maine. Nora hasn’t been back to the remote,
Irish-American community for decades—not since that long ago summer
when her mother disappeared at sea. Just as she begins to regain her
balance, her daughters embark on a reckless odyssey of their own—a
journey that will force Nora to find the courage to chart her own course
and finally face the truth about her marriage, her mother, and her
long-buried past.
