The Cliffs: Reese’s Book Club

REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK ΓÇó A novel of family,secretsghostsand homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maineby the New York Times best-selling author of Friends and Strangers ΓÇ£A stunning achievementand J. Courtney SullivanΓÇÖs best book yet. Sullivan weaves a narrative thatΓÇÖs fascinating and thought-provoking. I literally could not put this book down.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöAnn NapolitanoNew York Times best-selling author of Hello Beautiful On a secluded bluff overlooking the ocean sits a Victorian houselavender with gingerbread trima home that contains a centuryΓÇÖs worth of secrets. By the time Jane Flanagan discovers the house as a teenagerit has long been abandoned. The place is an irresistible mystery to Jane. There are still clothes in the closetsmarbles rolling across the floorsand dishes in the cupboardseven though no one has set foot there in decades. The house becomes a hideaway for Janea place to escape her volatile mother. Twenty years laternow a Harvard archivistshe returns home to Maine following a terrible mistake that threatens both her career and her marriage. Jane is horrified to find the Victorian is now barely recognizable. The new ownerGenevievea summer person from Beacon Hillhas gutted ittransforming the house into a glossy white monstrosity straight out of a shelter magazine. StrangelyGenevieve is convinced that the house is hauntedΓÇöperhaps the product of something troubling Genevieve herself has done. She hires Jane to research the history of the place and the women who lived there. The story Jane uncoversΓÇöof lovers lost at searomantic longingshattering lossartistic awakeninghistorical artifacts stolen and soldand the long shadow of colonialismΓÇöis even older than Maine itself. Enthrallingrichly imaginedfilled with psychic mediums and charlatansspirits and past livesmothersmarriageand the legacy of alcoholismthis is a deeply moving novel about the land we inhabitthe women who came before usand the ways in which none of us will ever truly leave this earth.