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"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."--Pat Conroy (from the Southern Voices Awards Dinner at the Hoover Library, Birmingham, AL, Feb. 21, 1997)

"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."--The State (Columbia, S.C.)

"Anne Rivers Siddons might be described as the living doyenne of tasteful women's summer fiction."--USA Today

"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."--Detroit News/Free Press

"Siddons is unerring in her portrayal of the Southern Betrayed Wife and her plight ...[and] makes us read on and on."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"If you've ever lived in the South, Anne Rivers Siddons's latest book will take you home again."--USA Today

"An emotionally truthful, satisfying story...Siddons creates convincing and sympathetic characters."--Orlando Sentinel

"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."--Southern Living

"Particularly well told ...Take this book on your vacation this summer. It's a perfect beach read."--Florida Times-Union

Having been raised by a domineering mother to put family ahead of everything, Molly Bell Redwine is set adrift when her mother dies and her husband of more than twenty years leaves her for another woman, a situation for which Molly takes refuge with a friend on Martha's Vineyard to come to terms with her true sense of self. 25,0000 first printing. Reprint.