Holly Chamberlin erschafft Erzählungen, die sich mit den Feinheiten menschlicher Verbindungen und der Suche nach Sinn im Alltag auseinandersetzen. Ihr Schreiben zeichnet sich durch scharfen Einblick in die menschliche Psyche aus, oft durchdrungen von einem subtilen Humor, der den Leser durch ihre Geschichten führt. Durch ihre Charaktere erforscht sie Themen wie Liebe, Verlust und persönliches Wachstum mit Empathie und Tiefe. Ihre Prosa bietet den Lesern eine Mischung aus Trost und tiefgründiger Reflexion.
Schwanger!!! Anna kann es nicht fassen. Gerade hatten sie und ihr Verlobter sich gegen das Kinderkriegen entschieden, und nun das. Als sie Ross die Neuigkeit erzählt, ist der Verräter plötzlich hocherfreut. Er schlägt ihr tatsächlich vor, sie könne doch jetzt ihre Firma verkaufen und sich ganz auf die kommenden Mutterfreuden konzentrieren. Da kennt er aber Anna schlecht!
Der letzte Sommer vor dem 30. Geburtstag: drei Frauen wollen es wissen. Bevor der Ernst des Lebens beginnt, möchten Gincy, Clare und Danielle noch einmal richtig Spaß haben – und vielleicht den einen oder anderen Mann. Gemeinsam mieten sie ein Haus auf Martha’s Vineyard. Es wird ein Sommer voller Flips und Flops – der Sommer ihres Lebens.
Die größte Problemzone der Frauen: Männer. Erin ist 32, erfolgreich und natürlich Single. Doch es soll definitiv ihr letztes Jahr allein sein: In den kommenden zwölf Monaten wird sie ihren zukünftigen Ehemann kennen lernen. Es wird das Jahr sein, von dem sie später ihren Kindern erzählen wird. Der erste Mann, dem sie begegnet, scheint auch gleich der Richtige zu sein: Doug Spears ist genauso, wie Erin sich Mr. Right vorgestellt hat: gut aussehend, charmant, erfolgreich – und verheiratet. Dennoch verliebt sich Erin Hals über Kopf in ihn …
Set against the backdrop of the beautiful Maine coast, Holly Chamberlin's novels are a summer staple. Now she weaves a heartfelt story of past and present summers and new beginnings, as a mother and daughter reconnect after decades apart... There are moments that change your entire life's direction. For Arden Bell, owner of a cherished bookstore in the seaside hamlet of Eliot's Corner, one such moment comes early on a summer day when she opens the door to Laura Huntington--the daughter she hasn't seen in thirty-seven years.Not a day has passed in which Arden hasn't thought of the baby she glimpsed only once before her wealthy, powerful parents forced her to give her up for adoption. Shy and sheltered, Arden finally mustered the courage to leave her Maine hometown of Port George, changed her name, and has barely seen her parents since. Nor has she heard from Rob, the boy she was so passionately in love with. Now Laura's arrival, and her inevitable questions, will propel both women on a journey to forge a new relationship and unravel the past. Amid revelations and discoveries--sometimes painful, often unexpected--they will learn the truth about a long-ago summer, and about the risks we take and sacrifices we make for love.
"When Poppy Higgins left Yorktide, Maine, for Boston, she pictured future visits home as brief diversions from her real life in the big city. Fate had different ideas, and at twenty-five, Poppy has been called back to care for her two younger sisters following their father's death. Sixteen-year-old Daisy resents Poppy's long absence and chafes under her sometimes fumbling efforts to be a parent. Violet, now thirteen, is a virtual stranger to her oldest sister. Once a happy, united family, the Higginses seem adrift, and Poppy longs to escape her responsibilities. But when Daisy befriends Evie, an enigmatic newcomer to Yorktide, the young woman will be an unlikely catalyst in the sisters' journey back to each other. For as Poppy discovers the deep loss in Evie's life, she awakens to the truth about her own, and about the town, and the people, she's tried to leave behind ..."--Page 4 of cover.
Bestselling author Holly Chamberlin's touching and thought-provoking novel about a mother's struggle to reconnect with her long-lost daughter... Every year on March 26th, Verity Peterson visits Ogunquit Beach, where she puts a handwritten message into a bottle and launches it into the waves. It's a ritual of remembrance for the daughter she hasn't seen in sixteen years--not since her baby's father, Alan, took two-month-old Gemma and disappeared. Verity keeps searching and hoping, sustained by the thought that someday she might get to be a mother to her own child. And finally, one phone call may change everything... Verity learns that Alan is now in jail on abduction charges--and Marni Armstrong, born Gemma Peterson-Burns, is coming to live with Verity in Yorktide, Maine. But this isn't the joyful reunion Verity imagined. Gemma has been raised to believe Verity was an unfit mother who left Alan no choice but to take her out of harm's way. Over the course of one summer, Verity tries to reach a tough, wary young woman who's more stranger than daughter. And Gemma must reexamine everything she thought about her parents--and decide whether to trust in a relationship that, though delicate as a seashell on the surface, could prove to be just as beautiful and resilient.
Returning to Ogunquit, Maine, for an extended visit, successful businesswoman Maggie Weldon reunites with her best friend growing up, native Mainer Delphine Crandall, and together they reflect on their choices and compromises, the girls they were and the women they've become.
When her 16-year-old daughter reveals that she is pregnant--an announcement that shocks the small community of Yorktide, Maine--Cindy Bauer, as their family is thrown into chaos, bands together with her friends and neighbors to make a baby quilt that reflects all of their hopes and dreams
Against the picturesque coastal Maine setting that she evokes so well, bestselling author Holly Chamberlin creates a heartfelt story of family bonds and new beginnings . . . It came as no surprise to anyone in Yorktide when glamorous Carol Ascher fled the little Maine town for New York City. While Carol found success as an interior designer, her younger sister, Bonnie, stayed behind, embracing marriage and motherhood. She even agreed to take in Carol’s teenage daughter during a tumultuous patch. Now both their girls are grown and Bonnie, recently widowed, is anticipating the day she’ll retire to Ferndean House, the nineteenth-century family home on the rocky Maine coast. But forty-five years after leaving Yorktide, Carol suddenly announces that she’s moving back—into Ferndean. Bonnie is indignant. She’s the one who kept the homestead in order and tended to their dying mother. Now Carol expects to simply buy her out? As far as Bonnie is concerned, Ferndean is part of their heritage—not just another of Carol’s improvement projects, to be torn apart and remade according to her whim. The entire Ascher family is in flux, uncovering secrets that upend their relationships. Carol’s longing to be welcomed home is fueled by a painful truth she’s carried for years. It will take an extraordinary summer—in a remarkable place—to lead these women back to each other, buoyed by the tides of friendship and forgiveness.