Bonny blankenships most treasured memories are of idyllic summers spent in watersend, south carolina, with her best friend, lainey mckay. Amid the sand dunes and oak trees draped with spanish moss, they swam and wished for happyeverafters, then escaped to the local bookshop to read and whisper in the glorious cool silence. Now, in her early 50s, bonny is desperate to clear her head after a tragic mistake threatens her career as an emergency room doctor. Dorothy dillingham blue the women who spent their childhood summers in a small southern town discover it harbors secrets as lush as the marshes that surround it. Intriguing story of complex personalities, all effected by their past experiences. Sometimes we tell our stories and sometimes our stories tell us. While the book was somewhat enjoyable, i would not give it more than 3 stars. The bookshop at waters end carries us along the graceful curves and outwardly serene story line of two childhood friends returning to their summer riverside home. Is there a job or purpose youve been called to in your life. First of all it really bothered me that on the cover, it is spelled waters end, but in the text of the book, it is watersend, which made me want to pronounce it as water send.
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