978-1-889199-13-9
$14.00 paperback
5 1/2 x 8 1/2
248 pages
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"All the characters in Daughters of the Sea by Ellyn Bache are floating in life, even those who appear anchored . . . This rich book balances multiple stories and characters while clearly and logically showing them growing and changing as they work their way through complicated life issues. The reader is drawn along in this charming, delightful book, filled with surprises and a combination of emotion, humor and mystery."
Romantic Times Book Review
Three generations of women, each with a special attraction to water, yearn to find where they belong. Ernie, 70 years old and ailing, is a dowser who finds underground water with a stick. Veronica, 38, has moved inland after many years near the sea, only to realize how powerfully she misses it. Her 19-year-old daughter, Simpson, feels an affinity for a tranquil mountain lake that soon yields a terrifying secret.
Living in forced togetherness far from the ocean, the women struggle against the weight of responsibilities they long to escape. Not until they understand that it's possible to be a daughter of the sea anywhere---and that home is not always a place---does each one finally make the pilgramage that will set her free.
about the author
Ellyn Bache is the award-winning author of more than a dozen books, including the novel Safe Passage, which was made into a movie starring Susan Sarandon, and a short story collection that won the Willa Cather Fiction Prize. She divides her time between Greenville, South Carolina, and the Philadelphia suburbs. |
