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Up Island; A Novel

Molly Bell Redwine has always been a model of success and contentment. But when her husband of 20 years leaves her for a younger woman and her mother dies, her family scatters. Needing to come to terms with this cataclysm and figure out who she is now, Molly visits friends on Martha's Vineyard and eventually purchases a small abandoned cottage on a remote up-island pond. Seasons change and it is there, as she tends a pair of crotchety old swans and makes new friends, that she settles into a new life, a new love, and a new self.

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A woman whose family scatters when her husband leaves her for another woman isolates herself in an island cottage, and finds a new and unorthodox definition of "family."

Praise

Kirkus
"Far-fetched but oddly compelling, this beaten-down housewife's journey to self-reliance and happiness has surprising quirks, lively characters, and actual feeling." 04/01/1997

Author Bio

Anne Rivers Siddons

Anne Rivers Siddons was born an only child in the small railroad town of Fairburn, Georgia. Her father was a title lawyer and her mother, a high school secretary. Siddons studied commercial art at Auburn University while editing and writing for "The Auburn Plainsman." She worked in advertising in Atlanta after graduation, became a senior editor for "Atlanta" magazine in 1964, and earned a doctorate from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta. She married her husband, Heyward L. Siddons, in 1966. In 1974, Siddons became a full-time writer, producing a long list of best-selling contemporary and traditional romances that vary widely in themes, but are most often set in the South and deal with troubled families and relationships.