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0241990459

Book The Paper Palace; Miranda Cowley Heller

Author: Cowley Heller, Miranda

Year: 2022

Language: English

Type: Book

Class Number: F

Category: Fiction

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2022

Physical or Electronic: Physical

ISBN: 9780241990452

Notes:

Before anyone else is awake, Elle Bishop heads out for a swim in the glorious freshwater pond below 'The Paper Palace' - the gently decaying summer camp in the back woods of Cape Cod where her family has spent every summer for generations. As she passes the house, Elle glances through the screen porch at the table from the dinner the previous evening; empty wine glasses, candle wax on the tablecloth, echoes of laughter of family and friends. Then she dives beneath the surface of the freezing water to the shocking memory of the sudden passionate encounter she had the night before, up against the wall behind the house, as her husband and mother chatted to the guests inside. So begins a story that unfolds over 24 hours and across 50 years, as decades of family legacies, love, lies, secrets and one unspeakable incident in her childhood lead Elle to the precipice of a life-changing decision.

Extent: 372 pages, 20 cm, pbk