Down East Books
Pages: 314
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Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-60893-333-4 • Paperback • June 2014 • $18.95 • (£14.99)
978-1-60893-334-1 • eBook • June 2014 • $9.99 • (£7.99)
Elisabeth Ogilvie wrote 46 books including The Seasons Hereafter, Strawberries in the Sea and her memoir My World is an Island. In 1947 she won the New England Women’s Press Association award for Storm Tide. Ogilvie grew up in the greater Boston area, but lived in Maine from 1944 until her death in 2006 and remains one of Maine’s best loved writers.
Pleasant reading, the characters are lively and valid. . . . Ogilvie has done a splendid job of giving each character on the island an identity, a personality, an individuality—and has preserved these distinctions adroitly in the helter-skelter of conflict. (Previous Edition Praise)
— The New York Times
There aren’t many things as fresh and clean as the wind that sweeps across the rocks and spruces of a Maine island, but a book by [Elisabeth Ogilvie], who started writing so she could buy a Maine island of her own, is about as close as you can get. (Previous Edition Praise)
— The Boston Globe
Plot enough for the technician, love enough for the escapist, psychology enough for the thoughtful and enough Maine atmosphere for the enthusiast. It is indeed a winning novel that has something for everyone. . . . The story has, not only a nice feeling for people, but a graceful descriptive fluency. It is something better than a charming love story; it is a contribution to our regional literature. (Previous Edition Praise)
— Chicago Tribune