SUMMER ISLAND
Book ID/图书代码： 06830004B06248
English Summary/英文概要： The author of the cherished bestseller On Mystic Lake returns with a poignant, funny, luminous novel about a mother and daughter--the complex ties that bind them, the past that separates them, and the healing that comes with forgiveness.
Years ago, Nora Bridge walked out on her marriage and left her daughters behind. She has since become a famous radio talk-show host and newspaper columnist beloved for her moral advice. Her youngest daughter, Ruby, is a struggling comedienne who uses her famous mother as fuel for her bitter, cynical humor. When the tabloids unearth a scandalous secret from Nora’s past, their estrangement suddenly becomes dramatic: Nora is injured in an accident and a glossy magazine offers Ruby a fortune to write a tell-all about her mother. Under false pretenses, Ruby returns home to take care of the woman she hasn’t spoken to for almost a decade.
Nora insists they retreat to Summer Island in the San Juans, to the lovely old house on the water where Ruby grew up, a place filled with childhood memories of love and joy and belonging. There Ruby is also reunited with her first love and his brother. Once, the three of them had been best friends, inseparable. Until the summer that Nora had left and everyone’s hearts had been broken. . . .
What began as an expose evolves, as Ruby writes, into an exploration of her family’s past. Nora is not the woman Ruby has hated all these years. Witty, wise, and vulnerable, she is desperate to reconcile with her daughter. As the magazine deadline draws near and Ruby finishes what has begun to seem to her an act of brutal betrayal, she is forced to grow up and at last to look
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 柏诺拉在广播界建立起自己的名声和地位；但她从不提及自己破碎家庭背后的阴暗面。而在现实生活中，诺拉离婚前的一段婚外情被人揭发，以致毁了她的一切，她只好前往夏之岛躲避丑闻。不料却在半路上出了车祸......而为了照顾车祸受伤的母亲，露比只好重回故乡、并和昔日的青梅竹马恋人迪恩再次重逢了。当年他们因一个无心的过失，而导致两人的分道扬镳。如今在经过多年的分离后，两人又因为一件令人心伤的残酷事实而重逢、并勾起了往日那不曾消逝的浪漫情怀。只是露比却不敢告诉迪恩，她会回故乡其实另有目的。因为有一家杂志社重金礼聘，要她抖出所有关于她母亲的私密内幕。而露比在心存报复、同时也对大笔的金钱动心下，答应了。现在，如果她的秘密被迪恩知道了，那么他俩的爱情铁定也没有复合的希望了......
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About the Author/作者介绍： 克莉斯丁.汉娜从西亚图华盛顿大学（University of Washington) 取得学士学位，从普杰沙恩德大学（University of Puget Sound)取得法律学位。当她那长的十分逗人的儿子出世之后，她便放弃了法律事务的工作，专心当一名全职的好妈咪。在那些忙着照顾新生儿的每一个夜晚——无眠但神气，克莉斯丁.汉娜完成了她的第一本小说。之后她的作品都不断地获奖，名列全国畅销书榜，而她的每一本小说，也都是非常畅销的。这本夏之岛更是深度地感人。她将故事的延展并深入探索出人性的光泽，生动地描绘家人亲情，特别是母女关系，成功地传达出真诚而丰富的情感，使读者感动并令人永难忘怀。克莉斯丁.汉娜目前跟她亲爱的另一半和英俊的儿子，住在西太平洋一座风光明媚的岛屿上。
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