Fellowship Point

NATIONAL BESTSELLER ΓÇ£Engrossing…studded with wisdom about long-held bonds.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöPeople,Book of the Week ΓÇ£Enthrallingmasterfully written…rich with social and psychological insights.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöThe New York Times Book Review ΓÇ£A magnificent storytelling feat.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöThe Boston Globe The ΓÇ£utterly engrossingsweepingΓÇ¥ (Time) story of a lifelong friendship between two very different ΓÇ£superbly depictedΓÇ¥ (The Wall Street Journal) women with shared historiesdivisive loyaltieshidden sorrowsand eighty years of summers on a pristine point of land on the coast of Maineset across the arc of the 20th century. Celebrated childrenΓÇÖs book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacyΓÇöto complete what she knows will be the final volume of her pseudonymously written Franklin Square novels; and even more consumingto permanently protect the peninsula of majestic coast in Maine known as Fellowship Point. To donate the land to a trustAgnes must convince shareholders to dissolve a generations-old partnership. And one of those shareholders is her best friendPolly. Polly Wister has led a different kind of life than Agnes: that of a well-off married woman with childrendefined by her devotion to her husbanda philosophy professor with an inflated sense of stature. She strives to create beauty and harmony in her homein her friendshipsand in her family. Polly soon finds her loyalties torn between the wishes of her best friend and the wishes of her three sonsΓÇöbut what is it that Polly wants herself? AgnesΓÇÖs designs are further muddied when an enterprising young book editor named Maud Silver sets out to convince Agnes to write her memoirs. AgnesΓÇÖs resistance cannot prevent long-buried memories and secrets from coming to light with far-reaching repercussions for all. ΓÇ£An ambitious and satisfying taleΓÇ¥ (The Washington Post)Fellowship Point reads like a 19th-century epicbut it is entirely contemporary in its ΓÇ£reflections on agingwritingstewardshiplegaciesindependenceand responsibility. At its heartFellowship Point is about caring for the places and people we love…This magnificent novel affirms that change and growth are possible at any ageΓÇ¥ (The Christian Science Monitor).