Kurzbeschreibung: From the bestselling author of Haven Point comes a sweeping historical novel about the generations of a family that spends summers in a seaside enclave on the rocky Maine coastline for fans of Elin Hilderbrand Beatriz Williams and Sarah Blake. 1900: 28-year-old Anna Bradley spends summer days supervising three little girls including her niece Julia Demarest on an island off the coast of Haven Point Maine. There the girls run free pretending to be all the things society says they cannot: pirates and rum runners treasure hunters and Roughriders. A college graduate determined to remain unmarried Anna is eager to establish herself independently. Inspired by the summer antics of Julia and her friends Anna writes "Liberty Island" a depiction of girls unshackled from the domestic sphere under a pen name. Young readers are rhapsodic and it is a runaway bestseller but its not well received by the society matrons in her sisters...
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