SUMMERS AT BLUE LAKE
Book ID/图书代码： 00342506B09041
English Summary/英文概要： As a young girl, Barbara Jean Ellington spent summers at her grandmothers’ home in a small Pennsylvania town. It was not the most conventional of households, formed as it was by two women who lived as partners in life as well as in business, but it had been a welcome retreat for a shy girl who had issues with her own mother and who needed room to grow.
Now both grandmothers have died, and BJ has come back to the small house near Blue Lake to sort through the remnants of their lives and the tatters of her own. She arrives with her young son, desperately in need of time to herself—time to come to terms with her husband’s sudden decision to end their marriage. Over the course of the summer, childhood memories come into sharp focus, especially with the reappearance of Travis, the man for whom, when they were both teenagers, she harbored a secret crush. Now, suddenly free, she must decide whether she’s ready to take a second chance at love.
More unsettling, however, is the discovery of an unmailed letter written by BJ’s grandmother Nonna to BJ’s own late mother filled with revelations both startling and confusing. Finding secrets within secrets, BJ begins piecing together the truth of the past.
Summers at Blue Lake is an engrossing and rewarding debut novel in the tradition of works by popular novelists such as Elizabeth Berg, Sue Miller, and Anita Shreve.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 作為一個年輕的女孩，巴巴拉•吉恩•艾琳頓在賓夕法尼亞的小鎮上祖母的家中渡過了自己的暑假。這不是一個常規的家庭，因為它是由兩名如同生意中的合作夥伴一樣，一同生活的婦女居住在一起而形成的家庭，但這個地方卻是一個與母親有著隔閡和一個需要成長空間的害羞女孩的最好避風港灣。
現在兩位祖母都去世了， BJ回到了藍湖附近的小屋去重新整理她那支離破碎的殘餘生活。帶著自己的小兒子，她迫切需要時間去彌合丈夫突發性的協議離婚決定所遺留下的傷痕。在過去的這個夏季中，童年記憶如潮水般湧現，尤其是隨著特拉維斯的（Travis）再次出現，當年他們曾是兩個壁花少年，她懷揣著美好的愛戀。現在，突然間釋放的自由，讓她必須決定自己是否準備好接受這第二次愛戀。
更令人不安的是，BJ發現了祖母寫諾瑪（Nonna）寫給自己已故母親的一封透著令人吃驚和困惑的未寄信件。為了一探究竟，BJ開始拼湊起過去的真相。
《藍湖之夏》是一本引人入勝的作品，正如伊莉莎白•伯格、蘇・米勒和安妮塔•伍瑞夫這些流行小說家的作品一樣，這同樣是部值得一讀的溫情小說。(Sandy)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 吉爾•特豪斯-伍德在賓夕法尼亞的蘭開斯特縣長大。從美國德拉維爾大學美術系獲得學士學位後，吉爾回到家鄉開始了自己長達15年的紡織品設計師職業生涯。因為設計是她的專項職業，吉爾開始轉行寫作尋求突破。她的小說《藍湖之夏》，原版在2007年由阿爾岡金出版社出版，2012年此書發行了電子版。
離開紡織產業後，吉爾開始從事繪畫工作，她還運用自己在各種藝術形式上的經驗，在日誌講習班傳授創造性思維。她曾為婦女暫避所，學校，康復中心，社區中心展開設計和研習班。
Jill Althouse-Wood lives with her husband and family in Pennsylvania. This is her first novel.
Format:HARDCOVER
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