I’m happy today to tell you about the latest novel from Viola Shipman: The Edge of Summer. I love the historical elements of Shipman’s stories and how things always end up “right” in the end. This novel focused on a young woman who was trying to find out about her mother’s past and her family (whom she always believed to have been deceased). I will say that, compared to other novels by this author, I found this one paced a little slower, especially for the first third of the book. However, it was an interesting and engaging story, and I loved the sewing tie-ins.
Thank you for my copy and for making me part of the tour!
Here’s the scoop:
Book Summary: Bestselling author Viola Shipman delights with this captivating summertime escape set along the sparkling shores of Lake Michigan, where a woman searches for clues to her secretive mother’s past
Devastated by the sudden death of her mother—a quiet, loving and intensely private Southern seamstress called Miss Mabel, who overflowed with pearls of Ozarks wisdom but never spoke of her own family—Sutton Douglas makes the impulsive decision to pack up and head north to the Michigan resort town where she believes she’ll find answers to the lifelong questions she’s had about not only her mother’s past but also her own place in the world.
Recalling Miss Mabel’s sewing notions that were her childhood toys, Sutton buys a collection of buttons at an estate sale from Bonnie Lyons, the imposing matriarch of the lakeside community. Propelled by a handful of trinkets left behind by her mother and glimpses into the history of the magical lakeshore town, Sutton becomes tantalized by the possibility that Bonnie is the grandmother she never knew. But is she? As Sutton cautiously befriends Bonnie and is taken into her confidence, she begins to uncover the secrets about her family that Miss Mabel so carefully hid, and about the role that Sutton herself unwittingly played in it all.
The Edge of Summer
Author: Viola Shipman
ISBN: 978-1525811425
Paperback Original
Publication Date: July 12, 2022
Publisher: Graydon House
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Author Bio: VIOLA SHIPMAN is the pen name for internationally bestselling author Wade Rouse. Wade is the author of fourteen books, which have been translated into 21 languages and sold over a million copies around the world. Wade chose his grandmother’s name, Viola Shipman as a pen name to honor the woman whose heirlooms and family stories inspire his fiction. The last Viola Shipman novel, The Secret of Snow (October 2021), was named a Best Book of Fall by Country Living Magazine and a Best Holiday Book by Good Housekeeping.
Wade hosts the popular Facebook Live literary happy hour, “Wine & Words with Wade,” every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. EST on the Viola Shipman author page where he talks writing, inspiration and welcomes bestselling authors and publishing insiders.
Doesn’t he look like the nicest guy? I need to go to his “Wine and Words with Wade” some time!
Happy Reading!
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