Critiques en avant-première

On her wedding weekend at an idyllic mountain resort, surrounded by everyone she loves best, Clare Hobbes meets Edith Herron, and during the course of a single conversation, the elderly, clear-eyed Edith gives Clare the courage to do what she should have done months before: break off her engagement to her charming but volatile fiancé, Zach. Three weeks later, still reeling and guilt-ridden, Clare is astonished to learn that Edith has died and left Clare Blue Sky House, a former guest house in a Delaware beach town. Perched at the marshy edge of a bay, nestled in crepe myrtle and hydrangea, and full of photographs taken by Edith and her beloved husband, Joseph, the house has sat empty for decades. Inside the walls of that house, Clare feels a deep connection to Edith, and when she finds two mysterious ledgers under the sink in Edith’s kitchen, she begins to suspect that Blue Sky House was no ordinary place and that Edith was no ordinary woman. With the help of her family, especially her mother, Viviana, and her surrogate mother, Cornelia Brown, and with her ex-boyfriend-turned-best-friend, Dev Tremain, at her side, Clare sets out to solve the mystery of Blue Sky House, a mystery more complex and tangled than she could have imagined. In alternating chapters, shifting between the 1950s and the present, between Edith’s point of view and Clare’s, we get Edith’s story, one of dark secrets, great love, terrible sacrifice, and incredible courage. As Clare uncovers this story, she also makes startling discoveries about herself, about where she’s come from, where she’s going, and what—and who—she loves.