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The Summer Cottage

by Viola Shipman

A family cottage and a life in transition

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Awards & Recognition

  • Bestseller

    USA Today bestseller

  • Critical praise

    Praise from New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank

    Dorothea Benton Frank directly praises The Summer Cottage, calling it charming, entertaining, and necessary.

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A family cottage and a life in transition

Adie Lou Kruger inherits her parents’ ramshackle Cozy Cottage on Lake Michigan while facing the end of her marriage and an empty nest. The cottage carries memories of childhood summers, along with its own rules for relaxing, giving the story a concrete link between family tradition and a possible new chapter. The description also places small-town community among the book’s central concerns, alongside the restorative pull of familiar places and shared traditions.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in stories about women navigating major life changes.
  • For readers drawn to family traditions, small-town community, and Lake Michigan settings.

Themes

Family traditionLife transitionsSmall-town communityMemory and place

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Book overview

A USA Today Bestseller!

"Every now and then a new voice in fiction arrives to completely charm, entertain and remind us what matters. Viola Shipman is that voice and The Summer Cottage is that absolutely irresistible and necessary novel." -- New York Times Bestselling Author Dorothea Benton Frank

From the bestselling author of The Charm Bracelet and The Recipe Box comes the perfect summer escape about the restorative power of family tradition, small-town community and the feel of sand between your toes

Adie Lou Kruger's ex never understood her affection for what her parents called their Cozy Cottage, the charming, ramshackle summer home--complete with its own set of rules for relaxing--that she's inherited on Lake Michigan. But despite the fact she's facing a broken marriage and empty nest, and middle age is looming in the distance, memories of happy childhoods on the beach give her reason for hope. She's determined not to let her husband's affair with a grad student reduce her to a clich
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