Nichole Bernier
Before there were blogs, there were journals. And in them weâ€™d write as we really were, not as we wanted to appear. But there comes a day when journals outlive us. And with them, our secrets.,Summer vacation on Great Rock Island was supposed to be a restorative time for Kate, whoâ€™d lost her close friend Elizabeth in a sudden accident. But when she inherits a trunk of Elizabeth's journals, they reveal a woman far different than the cheerful wife and mother Kate thought she knew.,The complicated portrait of Elizabethâ€”her troubled upbringing, and her route to marriage and motherhoodâ€”makes Kate question not just their friendship, but her own deepest beliefs about loyalty and honesty at a period of uncertainty in her own marriage.,The more Kate reads, the more she learns the complicated truth of who Elizabeth really was, and rethinks her own choices as a wife, mother, and professional, and the legacy she herself would want to leave behind. When an unfamiliar manâ€™s name appears in the pages, Kate realizes the extent of what she didnâ€™t know about her friend, including where she was really going on the day she died.,Set in the anxious summer after the September 11th attacks, this story of two womenâ€”their friendship, their marriages, private ambitions and fearsâ€”considers the aspects of ourselves we show and those we conceal, and the repercussions of our choices.,â€œI loved this bittersweet novel, which manages to be both a compelling mystery and a wise meditation on friendship, marriage and motherhood in an age of great anxiety. Bernier will have you thinking about her characters long after you've turned the final page.â€â€”J. Courtney Sullivan, ,New York Times, bestselling author of ,Maine
Fiction,Contemporary,Marriage,Womens Fiction,Chick Lit,Literary Fiction,Novels,Relationships,Death,Family,Childrens
The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D.