{"product_id":"up-island-isbn-9780060176150","title":"Up Island","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“A wonderful story. . . .Siddons has returned to what she does best: gives us a book full of laughter and adventure that has enough soul to leave us with something to think about after we finish reading.”  — \u003cem\u003eDetroit News\/Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom childhood, Molly Bell Redwine was taught by her charismatic, domineering mother that \"family is everything.\" But no one warned Molly that family can change unexpectedly. In rapid succession, her husband of more than twenty years abandons her for a younger woman, her mother dies, and her Atlanta clan scatters to the four winds. Molly is set adrift in a heartbeat. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith her old world crumbling, Molly takes refuge with a friend on Martha's Vineyard, hoping to come to terms with who she truly is. When the summer season ends, Molly decides to stay on, renting a small cottage on a remote up-island pond—becoming part of an odd, new, very real family that taxes her old outworn notions. And as the long Vineyard winter approaches, Molly braces herself for the arduous task she must undertake: a search for renewal and identity, and the strength to carry her through to the warm and healing spring.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eIf there was ever one woman who knew what was important, that woman was Molly Bell Redwine. From childhood, Molly was taught by her charismatic, demanding mother that \"family is everything.\" But in what seems like an instant, Molly discovers that family can change without warning. Her husband of more than twenty years leaves her for a younger woman, her domineering mother dies, and her Atlanta clan scatters to the four winds. In a heartbeat Molly is set adrift. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eDevasting by her crumbling world, Molly takes refuge with a friend on Martha's Vineyard where she tries to come to terms with who she really is. After the summer season, Molly decides to stay on in this very different world, renting a small cottage on a remote up-island pond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eAs Molly's stay up island widens the distance between her and her old life in Atlanta, she lets go of her outworn notions of family and begins to become part of a strange -- and very real -- new family.  As the long Vineyard winter closes in, she braces herself for the search for renewal, identity, and strength, until the healing spring finally comes.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Particularly well told …Take this book on your vacation this summer. It’s a perfect beach read.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlorida Times-Union\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Siddons is unerring in her portrayal of the Southern Betrayed Wife and her plight …[and] makes us read on and on.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“If you’ve ever lived in the South, Anne Rivers Siddons’s latest book will take you home again.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An emotionally truthful, satisfying story…Siddons creates convincing and sympathetic characters.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrlando Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Heartrending …Old and new Siddons readers will undoubtedly delight in Molly’s charisma and humor and admire her willingness to create a new family and life.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSouthern Living\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Here’s what you get when you read an Anne Rivers Siddons book: you get the full treatment, long sense of history, an intimate knowledge of society and the way it works and the way it breaks your heart. You learn things about men and women that you wished you never knew; yet her subject always remains the human heart in all its intricate beauty and capacity for disaster.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePat Conroy (from the Southern Voices Awards Dinner at the Hoover Library, Birmingham, AL, Feb. 21, 1997)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Trying to pick a favorite Anne Rivers Siddons novel is like trying to choose between spring fever and autumn crispness, but that’s a pleasant quandary for readers: Her books just keep getting better.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe State (Columbia, S.C.)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Anne Rivers Siddons might be described as the living doyenne of tasteful women’s summer fiction.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Exciting …A wonderful story…Keeps you turning pages…Siddons has returned to what she does best: give us a book full of laughter and adventure that has enough soul to leave us with something to think about after we finish reading.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDetroit News\/Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890754973925,"sku":"NP9780060176150","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/up-island-isbn-9780060176150","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}