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A Happier Life

by Kristy Woodson Harvey

A family history uncovered in Beaufort

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A family history uncovered in Beaufort

In Beaufort, North Carolina, an unfamiliar childhood home opens a path into Keaton Smith’s family history. Her present-day visit connects with the 1976 story of Rebecca “Becks” Saint James, known for her celebrated summer suppers in a historic house. The two timelines bring questions of inheritance, belonging, and family secrets into focus, with the town and its social life linking past and present. The supplied description ends mid-sentence, so the circumstances behind Becks’s struggles—and how the two stories resolve—remain unspecified.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in family secrets and discovering one’s roots.
  • Readers who enjoy novels structured around past and present timelines.
  • Readers drawn to North Carolina settings and community life.

Themes

Family history and belongingSecrets across generationsCommunity and social lifeNorth Carolina

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Book overview

"Full of Southern charm and characters that will stay with you" (Jennifer Probst, New York Times bestselling author), this tender novel follows a young woman who discovers the family she has always longed for when she spends a life-changing summer in North Carolina--from New York Times bestselling author Kristy Woodson Harvey. Present Day: Keaton Smith is desperate for a fresh start. So when her mother needs someone to put her childhood home in Beaufort, North Carolina, on the market--the home that Keaton didn't know existed until now--she jumps at the chance to head south. But the moment she steps foot inside the abandoned house, she's confronted with secrets about grandparents who died before she was born. And as she gets to know her charming next-door neighbor, his precocious ten-year-old son, and a flock of endearingly feisty town busybodies, she soon finds she has more questions than answers. 1976: Rebecca "Becks" Saint James has made a name for herself as the best hostess North Carolina has ever seen. Her annual summer suppers have become the stuff of legend, and locals and out-of-towners alike clamor for an invitation to her stunning historic home. But she's struggling behind the fa
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