The Beach Quilt (A Yorktide Maine Novel)

About this book

Set in a picturesque Maine beach town bestselling author Holly Chamberlins heartwarming and insightful novel delves into the choices and changes faced by two families over the course of one eventful summer. . . Everyone in Yorktide Maine knows sixteen-year-old Sarah Bauer. Shes a good student and a dutiful daughter as well as a beloved best friend to Cordelia Kane. So its a surprise to all when sensible Sarah reveals that she is pregnant. Though shocked Sarahs family is supportive. But while Sarah reconciles herself to a new and different future the consequences ripple in all directions. Her father--a proud old-time Mainer--tries to find more work to defray expenses. Her younger sister grapples with a secret she cant share. Cordelia feels abandoned and Cordelias mother faces the repercussions of a long-ago decision. As Sarahs mother Cindy frets about how shell juggle childcare with her job at the local quilting store she seizes on an idea: to band together and make a baby quilt. Piece by piece a beautiful design emerges. And as it progresses reflecting the hopes and cares of the women who create it each will find strength in the friendship and love that sustains them in hardship and in joy. . . Praise for the novels of Holly Chamberlin "A thoughtful social commentary and tender narration of friendship and loyalty." --Publishers Weekly on Last Summer "Nostalgia over real-life friendships lost and regained pulls readers into the story." --USA Today on Summer Friends