Seashell Season, Holly Chamberlin
Seashell Season, Holly Chamberlin
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Seashell Season

Author: Holly Chamberlin

Narrator: Libby McKnight, Laura Knight Keating

Unabridged: 13 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/28/2020

Categories: Fiction, Women


Synopsis

A picturesque Maine beach town is the setting for Holly Chamberlin’s touching and thought-provoking new
novel, as a mother struggles to reconnect with her long lost daughter …

Every year on March 26th, Verity Peterson visits Ogunquit Beach, where she puts a handwritten message into a
bottle and launches it into the waves. It’s a ritual of remembrance for the daughter she hasn’t seen in sixteen years—
not since her baby’s father, Alan, took two-month-old Gemma and disappeared. Verity keeps searching and hoping,
sustained by the thought that someday she might get to be a mother to her own child. And finally, one phone call may
change everything …

Verity learns that Alan is now in jail on abduction charges—and Marni Armstrong, born Gemma Peterson-Burns,
is coming to live with Verity in Yorktide, Maine. But this isn’t the joyful reunion Verity imagined. Gemma has been
raised to believe Verity was an unfit mother who left Alan no choice but to take her out of harm’s way. Over the course
of one summer, Verity tries to reach a tough, wary young woman who’s more stranger than daughter. And Gemma
must reexamine everything she thought about her parents—and decide whether to trust in a relationship that, though
delicate as a seashell on the surface, could prove to be just as beautiful and resilient

About Holly Chamberlin

Holly Chamberlin was born and raised in New York City. After earning a Master's degree in English Literature from New York University and working as an editor in the publishing industry for ten years, she moved to Boston, married and became a freelance editor and writer. She and her husband now live in downtown Portland, Maine, in a restored mid-nineteenth-century brick townhouse with Betty, the most athletic, beautiful and intelligent cat in the world.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Patty on June 23, 2016

Seashell Season By Holly Chamberlin What it's all about... This is one of those books that can be devoured in a day...a day on the deck...a day at the beach...even a rainy day cuddled in the sunroom. It's the perfect setting...Maine. It's about Verity and how when her baby daughter Gemma was two months......more

Goodreads review by Sandi on April 29, 2019

This is a beautiful story that pulled me in and held me enthralled until the end. A father (who has mental health issues) kidnaps his baby girl from the mother, and is caught 17 years later when he attempts to steal a car. The baby (named Gemma by her mom, and Marni by her dad) is now a 17 year-old......more