The cliff house / RaeAnne Thayne.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781335004901
- Physical Description: 361 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : HQN, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019.
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Sisters > Fiction. Aunts > Fiction. Family secrets > Fiction. Man-woman relationships > Fiction. Life change events > Fiction. California, Northern > Fiction. California > Fiction. |
Genre: | Love stories. Domestic fiction. |
Available copies
- 5 of 5 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Castlegar Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 5 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Castlegar Public Library | FIC THA (Text) | 35146002131415 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2019 February #2
*Starred Review* Thayne (Serenity Harbor, 2017) is in peak form in this delightful, multiple-perspective tale of the entwined lives and loves of three women in a Northern California seaside community. Daisy is a serious and dedicated widowed CPA nearing 30. Her sister, Bea, is an artist raising a young daughter. They were raised by their aunt Stella, a middle-school teacher who rescued them from foster care when she was only 21. Each has secrets. The men in their lives include Bea's ex-husband and rock star, Cruz, who wants her back, and her best friend, high-school football coach Shane, who is staying in her guest house. Daisy meets Gabe, a famous photojournalist whose acts of heroism include rescuing a French bulldog from the cliff near her home. Stella, at 40, has raised several foster children and started a foundation to support foster families. Coincidentally, when she finally succeeds in getting pregnant, her widowed college love joins her OB-GYN's practice. Thayne skillfully interweaves these plotlines with just the right amount of glamour, art, and kindness to make for a warmly compelling and satisfying work of women's fiction. Copyright 2019 Booklist Reviews. - LJ Express Reviews : LJ Express Reviews
Sisters Beatriz and Daisy Davenport are indebted to their Aunt Stella, who took them in when their mother died even though she was a young woman barely out of college. When the three women come together to celebrate Stella's 40th birthday, they are all on the verge of major life changes. Stella has recently learned she has become pregnant via sperm donor. Bea's ex-husband and major rock star Cruz has moved back to town to recover from a near-death experience and has designs on her again. Daisy has a chance meeting with a man who has the potential to melt her icy exterior. When Stella's college boyfriend moves to town and reestablishes contact with her, it seems like their timing might be off again. These three independent women are faced with the challenge of owning up to their feelings and growing enough to take a chance on true love. VERDICT Thayne ("Women of Brambleberry House" and "Haven Point" series) puts her considerable skills on full display in her first stand-alone hardcover release. For readers who enjoy the works of authors such as Debbie Macomber and Linda Lael Miller, it's a truly romantic work with many surprises that lead to a satisfying ending. [See Prepub Alert, 10/1/18.]âKaren Core, Detroit P.L. (c) Copyright 2019. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2019 January #2
Stella Davenport and the nieces she raised, Daisy and Beatriz, face daunting romantic decisions in this charming if uneven contemporary. Stella was college-age when her sister had died, leaving two daughters behind. Stella put everything on hold to raise them. Now that they're grown, she's ready to have a baby of her own. Pregnancy at 40 is challenging, but when the man she walked away from years before moves back to Cape Sanctuary, morning sickness becomes the least of her worries. Beatriz is now a single mother herself, pining for her best friend even as her rock star ex-husband tries to win her back. Daisy, who carries the brunt of the sisters' childhood trauma, copes by compartmentalizing. To the world, she's a type-A accountant, but secretly she is the whimsical artist known only as Marguerite. When she meets documentarian Gabe Ellison, the lines begin to blur as he encourages her to be truthful about who she really is. For all the drama in these characters' pasts, their present dilemmas are rather mild. The love stories fall into well-worn territory; the heart of this sweet contemporary story is in the women's relationships with each other, and it will suit readers on both sides of the blurry romance/women's fiction divide.
Copyright 2019 Publishers Weekly.Agent: Karen Solem, Spencerhill Assoc. (Mar.)