Summer By The Sea
Susan Wiggs
Mira, May 26 2015, $14.95
ISBN: 9780778318538
"Celesta's by the Sea" owner Rosa
Capoletti feels good for her BFF Linda whose beloved Jason just proposed to
her. However, Rosa’s happiness ends when
“yachtis” from Newport arrive in her Winslow establishments for drinks. Amongst them is the last person she ever
wants to see, her teenage sweetheart Alex
Montgomery who left one day without a word, never returning until now.
Her dad was his affluent family gardener; so Rosa
assumed theirs was a summer fling that could go nowhere. Thus she focused on her highly regarded
restaurant as the love of her life. Alex
informs her he is staying at his family summer home that has been vacant for
over a decade. She thinks back to when
they first met and the subsequent summers afterward; he needs to tell her why
he left a dozen years ago. Family
tragedies connect the gap.
Though the transition between past and present at
times is difficult to follow, this is a reprint of a wonderful 2004 family
drama. The twenty-first century Romeo
and Juliet couple is an absorbing pairing of old money Yankee and working class
Italian-American. Ironically it is not
the social class difference that nuked their relationship, but a family tragedy
that tore them apart and another family tragedy that may, if each is willing,
give them a second chance.
Harriet Klausner
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