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What We Meant To Return: A Heron Bay Novel

What We Meant To Return: A Heron Bay Novel

Voss, M. L.

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN13: 9798186609698
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 10 2026
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Ellen Marsh is very good at finishing things. When her estranged mother dies in the small coastal town of Heron Bay, she arrives a day after the funeral with a two-week plan: empty the house, sell it, go home.\n\nThen, under the bed, she finds a handmade crate - and inside it, a ledger. For thirty years her mother lent books to the whole town and wrote every one of them down. The last entry is older than all the others: E.M. - never returned. Door by door, Ellen begins giving the books back. A widower and his bird book. A man still arguing with a dead woman about Steinbeck. A woman who was lent the same novel three times, each time at the right moment. And with every door that opens,

Ellen meets a mother she never knew - a woman with a secret she kept from an entire town, and one book she kept for forty-five years, waiting for her daughter to come for it.\n\nFrom the author of What We Could No Longer Carry comes a quiet, deeply moving novel about the things we lend, the things we keep, and learning to come back on purpose. Perfect for readers of Elizabeth Strout, Kent Haruf, and Fredrik Backman

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