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THE LAKE SEASON

Hannah McKinnon

Everything changes for Iris the day a hand-scrawled postcard arrives in her mailbox: "Please Come" says the message in her sister Leah's dreamy script. Iris seizes her chance to escape to her childhood lakeside home, where Leah is planning her summer wedding to a man their New Hampshire clan has never met.

Iris Standish has always been the responsible older sibling: the one with the steady marriage, loving family, and sensible job. But all of a sudden, as her carefully-constructed life spins out of her control, a cryptic postcard from her estranged sister Leah arrives at the perfect time: Please Come. Iris seizes her chance to escape to her childhood lakeside home, where Leah is planning her summer wedding to a man their New Hampshire clan has never met.

Against a backdrop of dress fittings, floral arrangements, and rehearsal dinners, Leah hides secrets of her own. And while her sister faces a past that has finally caught up to her, Iris prepares to say good-bye to a future that is suddenly far from certain. As new love beckons and Hampstead Lake shimmers in the background, Iris must decide when to wade in cautiously and when to dive—and, ultimately, how to ferry herself to safe harbors in this enticing novel of second chances and the ties that bind.

McKinnon is a published author of two young adult novels, Franny Parker and The Properties of Water, published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux .. A former elementary school teacher, Hannah graduated from Connecticut College and the University of South Australia with her BA, MA, and Sixth year degrees in English and Education. She lives in Connecticut with her family, a flock of chickens, and two rescue dogs. When she’s not writing, Hannah can be found exploring either the great outdoors or the library bookshelves with her daughters.

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Book Published 2015-06-01 by Emily Bestler Books / Atria Books
Book Published 2015-06-01 by Emily Bestler Books / Atria Books

Comments

Charming and heartfelt! Hannah McKinnon's Sistering proves that you can go home again; you just can't control what you find when you get there.

An emotionally charged story about returning to yourself.

This is a beautiful tale of sisters, a heartfelt journey of truth and choices that will leave you deeply satisfied.

Hannah McKinnon’s Sistering is a pure delight. Iris Standish is such an appealing woman, handling an overload of family calamities with good sense and good will, not to mention a few really good times. It’s a bonus that the setting on Lake Hampstead is as enticing and refreshing as McKinnon’s voice.

Hannah McKinnon's lyrical debut tells the story of a pair of very different sisters, both at a crossroads in life. McKinnon's great strength lies in her ability to reveal the many ways the two women wound - and ultimately heal - each other as only sisters can.

Charming, absorbing and perfectly paced, Sistering is as full of warmth as summer itself. Don't blame Hannah McKinnon if this cinematic tale has you glued to a beach chair until it's finished.

Two sisters, a glittering New England lake, and one desperate, last-chance summer set the stage for Hannah McKinnon’s emotionally affecting new novel, Sistering. The story features the complex Iris and her unpredictable sister Leah but its power extends well beyond the beautiful, heartbreaking bond between these two women. A memorable rumination on life, loss, and how to find a path home.

Sometimes funny, sometimes sad - but always bursting with compassion and sly humor. Sistering is a joy to read for anyone who cherishes the complexity and richness of family dynamics. Impossible not to be swept along by the characters. The perfect book to spread out with luxuriously on the beach.

McKinnon’s voice is sharp and evocative…Making use of a gorgeous setting and serious themes, this novel rises above a flock of fluffier beach reads.

Here is sisterhood in all its complexity, rich with tenderness, resentments and shared jokes, disappointment, admiration and profound love. Those who have a sister will read this book and pass it on to them; those who do not, will wish more than ever that they did.