BEACH GIRLS

Book ID/图书代码： 06830004B08097

English Summary/英文概要： Twenty-five years ago three friends grew from girls to women on the sandy shores of Hubbard’s Point, Connecticut, forging a bond they swore would last always. Then time and distance drew them apart—and one was lost forever. Now her nine-year-old daughter has returned to the Point with her widowed father, longing to find the "beach girls"of her mother’s stories.

But after years of heartbreak, artist Stevie Morre has withdrawn into a self-imposed exile. And fo Maddie Kilvert, Hubbard’s Point has become a place where innocence and tragedy forever intertwine. Can memories of blue skies and laughter bring them together again to embrace a lonely girl and a wounded man? If they can believe once more in the power of the past and the magic of a new summer, it may light the way toward a new chance at love for them all...

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 二十五年前，在康涅狄格州沙滩海岸边，三个好朋友从天真烂漫的小女孩长大成为女人，她们发誓永不分离。然而时间和距离还是将她们分开，而且是和其中一个女孩永远分离。如今，她九岁的女儿和她丈夫回到了她童年的故乡来找寻她童年的记忆。蓝天白云、欢声笑语的记忆是否能将昔日的姐妹带回到好友孤单的女儿和受伤的丈夫身边？如果他们相信往事的力量，也许过去的姐妹情深会让他们重新被爱拥抱。(Vicky)

Awards/获奖情况：Rice returns to her quintessential beach community of Hubbard’s Point, Connecticut, and three childhood girlfriends now grown up. Stevie, Emma, and Maddie were inseparable and vowed to always be friends, but life and love intruded. Stevie has become a recluse still living in her father’s house at the beach, but her isolation is shattered when Emma dies in a car crash and her nine-year-old daughter, Nell, comes to Stevie in search of lost female influences, including that of Maddie, with whom she was once close. The healing powers of the beautiful beach, and of friendship, work their magic on Nell and Stevie as both influence each other lives and as Nell’s father struggles with his conflicting emotions over his wife’s death. Rice’s characters forge new connections in this beautiful and tender love story set against an idyllic backdrop of sand and surf and dealing with many facets of love. Another winner for Rice, who breathes life into poignant tales not only about love but also about forgiveness.---Patty Engelmann, From Booklist

Like a milder Northern cousin of Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood, Rice’s latest (following Dance with Me) celebrates the near mystical persistence of female bonds. While summering in the seaside town of Hubbard’s Point, Conn., Emma Lincoln, Stevie Moore and Maddie Kilvert, the titular beach girls, were inseparable, but as adults, they’ve drifted apart. Stevie lives like a hermit in Hubbard’s Point, unaware that her old friend Emma died in a car crash, leaving behind a husband, a child and secrets. When widower Jack brings his daughter, Nell, to the Point, Nell searches out her last link to her mother: Stevie. A bestselling children’s author, Stevie is drawn to Nell and her attractive dad, but the protagonists must struggle with doubts and fears before they can consider a future together. This book is more sentimental and less suspenseful than Rice’s previous novels, and fans of her earlier book, The Perfect Summer, may find the premise—a spouse who dies suddenly, with secrets that leave family in disarray—overly familiar. Fortunately, Rice’s gorgeous descriptions and sensitive characterizations compensate for those flaws. Few writers evoke summer’s translucent days so effortlessly, or better capture the bittersweet ties of family love. ---From Publishers Weekly

About the Author/作者介绍： Luanne Rice is the author, most recently, of Last Kiss and Light of the Moon, among many other New York Times bestsellers. She lives in New York City and on the Connecticut shore.
盧安·萊斯(Luanne Rice)出版過２３本暢銷書，如《最重要的事》、《冬日之際》、《沙堡》、《玫瑰之夏》、《夏日之子》和《沙灘女生》。她居住在紐約以及康涅迪格州。盧安·萊斯的作品數度被改編電影與電視影集，，如《真愛無價》(Follow the Stars Home)(2001)、Silver Bells等…
盧安·萊斯雖然是羅曼史暢銷作者，但其作品不僅只描寫男女之情，作品中常見對於家人間的親情與友誼的深刻描述。她的小說《冬日之際》、《沙堡》和《玫瑰之夏》讓人難以忘懷她對家庭、友誼和愛情悲歡離合的呼喚，釋放了人們最強烈的內心情感。盧安·萊斯的多本作品繁體版權皆開放。
盧安·萊斯網站：http://www.randomhouse.com/features/luannerice/about.html

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