Showing results for "In Memory of Memory" in Women's Fiction

When Jessica Steele's husband left, Jess and her youngest daughter, Glory, fled to the old beach house in Driftwood Key, planning to drown their sorrows in the delicious saltwater air and the rippling hush of the ocean. But now Jess has reunited with the foster family that never left her thoughts, including the boy who had a special place in her heart–a boy who has grown into a kind but complicated man. And she has finally learned the shocking truth about why her husband left her.

For forty-two years, Sally Harrison has been building a library. Each year, on her daughter’s birthday, she adds a new book to her shelves – with a note in the front dedicated to her own greatest work. But Ella – Sally’s only child – fled to Australia twenty-two years ago after a heated exchange, and never looked back. And though Sally still dutifully adds a new paperback to the shelves every time the clock strikes midnight on July 11th, her hopes of her daughter ever thumbing through the pages are starting to dwindle.

Ten years ago, Claire Hines lost her unborn child - and her short-term memory - following a heartrending tragedy. With notebooks, calendars, to-do lists, fractured pieces of the past, and her father’s support, Claire makes it through each day, hour by hour, with relative confidence. She also has a close-knit community of friends in the remote Alaskan town where she teaches guitar to the local children. It’s there, in the reminders. As determined as Claire is to regain all that’s disappeared, she’d prefer to live without some memories of her before life.

Identical twin sisters Selina and Zora have always shared everything. But now they are at the end of their lives, Selina is suffering from dementia, and they come together to piece together the fragments of her memories. Born in South London in 1952, to a Jamaican father and British mother, their lives have been inextricably entwined with that of Lydia, an affluent white girl who lived next door to them. But when Cal, the twins’ brother, is brutally murdered, and Lydia is the only witness, things take a darker turn.