It was like being able to major in eating chocolate.'Īfter graduation, Allen began writing seriously. In college, she majored in literature - because, as she puts it, 'I thought it was amazing that I could get a diploma just for reading fiction. New York Times Bestselling novelist Sarah Addison Allen brings the full flavor of her southern upbringing to bear on her fiction - a captivating blend of magical realism, heartwarming romance, and small-town sensibility.īorn and raised in Asheville, North Carolina, in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Allen grew up with a love of books and an appreciation of good food (she credits her journalist father for the former and her mother, a fabulous cook, for the latter). Can they find what they need before it's too late?Īt once atmospheric and enchanting, Lost Lake shows Sarah Addison Allen at her finest, illuminating the secret longings and the everyday magic that wait to be discovered in the unlikeliest of places. One after another, people find their way to Lost Lake, looking for something that they weren't sure they needed in the first place: love, closure, a second chance, peace, a mystery solved, a heart mended. and maybe Kate herself can rediscover something that slipped through her fingers so long ago. Perhaps at Lost Lake her little girl can cling to her own childhood for just a little longer. Now she's all too familiar with those things, but she knows about hope too, thanks to her resilient daughter Devin, and her own willingness to start moving forward. Lost Lake is where Kate Pheris spent her last best summer at the age of twelve, before she learned of loneliness, and heartbreak, and loss. Until one last chance at family knocks on her door. It's a lot, but not enough to keep Eby from relinquishing Lost Lake to a developer with cash in hand, and calling this her final summer at the lake. All that's left is a once-charming collection of lakeside cabins succumbing to the Southern Georgia heat and damp, and an assortment of faithful misfits drawn back to Lost Lake year after year by their own unspoken dreams and desires.

Most of her demanding extended family are gone.

Now Lost Lake is about to slip into Eby's past. Just an old photo and a few words on a small square of heavy stock, but when she saw it, she knew she was seeing her future. The first time Eby Pim saw Lost Lake, it was on a picture postcard. From the author of the beloved bestseller Garden Spells comes a beautiful, haunting story of old loves and new, and the power of the connections that bind us forever.

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