Haven Point
Book Feature - Haven Point by Virginia Hume
HBL Note: Debut authors are my favorite! I get so much joy featuring new authors and their books. Introducing Virginia Hume and her debut novel, HAVEN POINT, about three generations spending their summers on the rocky coast of Maine. Spanning from 1944 to 2008, Hume shows America changing over time while a family holds tight to their traditions and secrets. This book is being touted as perfect for fans of Elin Hildebrand, Beatriz Williams, and Sarah Blake. Scroll down to read more.
Book Feature - Haven Point by Virginia Hume
Book Feature - Haven Point by Virginia Hume
From the publisher:
1944: Maren Larsen is a blonde beauty from a small Minnesota farming town, determined to do her part to help the war effort––and to see the world beyond her family’s cornfields. As a cadet nurse at Walter Reed Medical Center, she’s swept off her feet by Dr. Oliver Demarest, a handsome Boston Brahmin whose family spends summers in an insular community on the rocky coast of Maine.
1970: As the nation grapples with the ongoing conflict in Vietnam, Oliver and Maren are grappling with their fiercely independent seventeen-year-old daughter, Annie, who has fallen for a young man they don’t approve of. Before the summer is over a terrible tragedy will strike the Demarests––and in the aftermath, Annie vows never to return to Haven Point.
2008: Annie’s daughter, Skye, has arrived in Maine to help scatter her mother’s ashes. Maren knows that her granddaughter inherited Annie’s view of Haven Point: despite the wild beauty and quaint customs, the regattas and clambakes and sing-alongs, she finds the place––and the people––snobbish and petty. But Maren also knows that Annie never told Skye the whole truth about what happened during that fateful summer.
Book Feature - Haven Point by Virginia Hume
