“An outstanding multigenerational novel…We are hooked from the moment we meet Maude.” –New York TimesAn unforgettable story of love, acceptance, and tradition from New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons. When Maude Chambliss first arrives at Retreat, the seasonal home of her husband’s aristocratic family, she is a nineteen-year-old bride fresh from South Carolina’s Low Country. … nineteen-year-old bride fresh from South Carolina’s Low Country. Among the patrician men and women who reside in the summer colony on the coast of Maine, her gypsy-like beauty and impulsive behavior immediately brand her an outsider. She, as well as everyone else, is certain she will never fit in. And of course, she doesn’t…at first.
But over the many summers she spends there, Maude comes to cherish life in the colony, as she does the people who share it with her. There is her husband Peter, consumed with a darkness of spirit; her adored but dangerously fragile children; her domineering mother-in-law, who teaches her that it is the women who possess the strength to keep the colony intact; and Maine native Micah Willis, who is ultimately Maude’s truest friend.
This brilliant novel, rich with emotion, is filled with appealing, intense, and indomitable characters. Anne Rivers Siddons paints a portrait of a woman determined to preserve the spirit of past generations—and the future of a place where she became who she is…a place called Colony.
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Colony is another tightly crafted novel by the inimitable Anne Rivers Siddons, whose intimate narrative shines through in this expose on summer life in an insular, cloistered colony on the untamed coast of Maine. Maude Gascoigne is nineteen and fresh from the outskirts of Charleston, South Carolina when her new husband, Peter Chambliss, takes her …
It felt real and brought not just people but experience of the place, time and lifestyle
For anyone who’s ever had a domineering mother-in-law or married into a family where you felt like the proverbial square peg in a round hole, this is a great read. Readers will love Maude and will root for her throughout. For a southern writer, Anne Rivers Siddons skillfully drew such a realistic portrait of life in a Maine summer colony, you …