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Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly
Paperback
Publisher Price: $18.99
ISBN13: 9780062997319
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: May 30 2023
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.34 Depth: 8.01
Language: English
From the USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of The Book Club for Troublesome Women comes a warm, witty, and deeply human story about the women who shape us, the homes that hold us, and the failures that finally set us free.
Marie Bostwick is my go-to author for feel-good novels. Her writing is always powerful, inspiring, and uplifting. - ROBYN CARR
Esme Cahill thinks she has failed spectacularly: fired from her New York City publishing job, divorced from her husband, and possessing little more than a broken-down car and a pile of unfinished manuscripts, she drives home to Asheville at the request of her late grandmother, Adele, who had begged her, just before she died, to return to the place she grew up.
There she discovers the once-charming lakeside retreat run by her family is sliding toward financial ruin, so with the help of her grandfather, George; estranged mother, Robyn; and a travelling chef Dawes (maker of the world's best grilled cheese sandwich) they set to work. In the attic, Esme unearths a trove of museum-worthy art quilts, sewn by Adele. Piecing together the inspiration behind them, Esme discovers a forgotten chapter in her family history and her grandmother's untold story, that of a gifted artist who never received her due.
Bold, funny, and quietly revolutionary in the way only stories about women reclaiming themselves can be, Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly is a novel about the ties that bind us -- and what happens when we're brave enough to reimagine them.
Perfect for readers who loved The Book Club for Troublesome Women and fans of Mary Alice Monroe and Kristy Woodson Harvey.
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