The
Summer Girls by Mary Alice Monroe
Expected Publication: June 25, 2013Format: E-ARC provided via Edelweiss
Publisher: Galley Books
Rating: 4/5
Summary via Goodreads
Three sisters reunite on Sullivan’s
Island off the coast of South Carolina after years of separation in this
heartwarming first novel in a new trilogy from a beloved author. Eighty-year-old
Marietta Muir is a dowager of Charleston society who has retired to her
historic summer home on Sullivan’s Island. At the onset of summer, Marietta,
“Mamaw,” seeks to gather her three granddaughters—Carson, Eudora, and
Harper—with the intent to reunite them after years apart. Monroe explores the
depths and complexities of sisterhood, friendship and the power of forgiveness.
My Thoughts
Resentment, secrets and family is just some of
the themes that run through this wonderful story of The Muir family. Three very
different sisters are summoned by their grandmother to spend the summer with
her and each other before she sells the beloved family summer house. We are
told the story of the three Muir granddaughters who spent all their summers
with their grandparents, especially after their father’s death. While each of
the sisters has dealt with their father’s death in different ways, the oldest
sister Carson is the only one who knows the real truth to their father’s death.
Each sister comes to the beach house with their own drama; never realizing that
one place [the beach house] they didn’t want to visit again, is the one place
that magically helps change each of their lives.
This is my first venture into a Mary Alice Monroe
book but I can honestly say it won’t be my last. She is known for her
wonderfully written novels about family and many of them focus on summer time
as the setting. This is the first installment of her new series. In this one we
are vaguely introduced to all the Muir clan but it mainly focuses on Carson. It’s
just my guess that in each of the following books will focus more on each
remaining sister.
If you are looking for a good family based summer
read pick this one up. It has all the elements of a classic summer book. It’s
light, funny and touching all at the same time and I know you will surely enjoy
it as much as I have. I can’t wait for the next one!
This definitely sounds like a sweet, summery read. It's probably not the genre I'd review on my blog, but it's right up my alley...especially with a setting in South Carolina! I grew up having holidays there :)
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Aww thanks. It's a great summer read. I try and review but YA and Fiction equally, love them both.
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