The Seasons Hereafter

Elisabeth Ogilvie

Vanessa Barton steps onto Bennett’s Island for the first time as if she is stepping into a prison cell. She feels trapped by her marriage, she carries the emotional shackles of a childhood spent as a ward of the state, and she wants nothing to do with the island community. A chance encounter with Owen Bennett sparks off an attraction that brings Vanessa to life, as she discovers something real that eclipses the fantasies of the novels she reads. Owen leads her on a path of self-discovery that forces her to confront long buried feelings and begin healing old emotional scars.

Island life shakes Vanessa out of her self-pity but when misfortune knocks once again at her door, she must decide once and for all whether to succumb to the fugue of her earlier days or whether to seize her independence and happiness.

Down East Books

Pages: 290 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-60893-337-2 • Paperback • June 2014 • $18.95 • (£14.99)

978-1-60893-338-9 • eBook • June 2014 • $9.99 • (£7.99)

Series: The Lover's Trilogy

Subjects: Fiction / Romance / Historical / General, Fiction / Family Life / General, Fiction / Historical / General

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Vanessa Barton steps onto Bennett’s Island for the first time as if she is stepping into a prison cell. She feels trapped by her marriage, she carries the emotional shackles of a childhood spent as a ward of the state, and she wants nothing to do with the island community. A chance encounter with Owen Bennett sparks off an attraction that brings Vanessa to life, as she discovers something real that eclipses the fantasies of the novels she reads. Owen leads her on a path of self-discovery that forces her to confront long buried feelings and begin healing old emotional scars.

Island life shakes Vanessa out of her self-pity but when misfortune knocks once again at her door, she must decide once and for all whether to succumb to the fugue of her earlier days or whether to seize her independence and happiness.

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Down East Books

Pages: 290 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-60893-337-2 • Paperback • June 2014 • $18.95 • (£14.99)

978-1-60893-338-9 • eBook • June 2014 • $9.99 • (£7.99)

Series: The Lover's Trilogy

Subjects: Fiction / Romance / Historical / General, Fiction / Family Life / General, Fiction / Historical / General

Author

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.

Reviews

Elisabeth Ogilvie captures the ambience of Down East Maine and island life better than any other writer. . . . Her characters are real, her dialogue is strong, and her exposition and narrative are lyrical prose. (Previous Edition Praise)
— Portland Press Herald

Absorbing. (Previous Edition Praise)
— The Boston Globe

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