Bestselling author Viola Shipman delights with this captivating
summertime escape set along the sparkling shores of Lake Michigan,
where a woman searches for clues to her secretive mother's past
Devastated by the sudden death of her mother--a quiet, loving and
intensely private Southern seamstress called Miss Mabel, who overflowed
with pearls of Ozarks wisdom but never spoke of her own family--Sutton
Douglas makes the impulsive decision to pack up and head north to the
Michigan resort town where she believes she'll find answers to the
lifelong questions she's had about not only her mother's past but also
her own place in the world.
Recalling Miss Mabel's sewing notions that were her childhood toys,
Sutton buys a collection of buttons at an estate sale from Bonnie Lyons,
the imposing matriarch of the lakeside community. Propelled by a handful
of trinkets left behind by her mother and glimpses into the history of
the magical lakeshore town, Sutton becomes tantalized by the possibility
that Bonnie is the grandmother she never knew. But is she? As Sutton
cautiously befriends Bonnie and is taken into her confidence, she begins
to uncover the secrets about her family that Miss Mabel so carefully
hid, and about the role that Sutton herself unwittingly played in it
all.
"The minute I finished The Clover Girls, I ordered copies for all my
friends. It's that good." --Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times
bestselling author
Don't miss bestselling author Viola Shipman's enchanting new novel,
FAMOUS IN A SMALL TOWN--a magical story about the family you're born
with, and the one you choose!
Other books by Viola Shipman:
-
The Secret of Snow
-
A Wish for Winter
-
The Summer Cottage
-
The Heirloom Garden
-
The Clover Girls
