Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
Up at Butternut Lake
Up at Butternut Lake: A Novel | Mary McNear
5 posts | 7 read | 7 to read
New York Times and USA Today Bestseller! In the tradition of Kristin Hannah and Susan Wiggs, Mary McNear introduces readers to the town of Butternut Lake and to the unforgettable people who call it home. It's summer, and after ten years away, Allie Beckett has returned to her family's cabin beside tranquil Butternut Lake, where as a teenager she spent so many carefree days. She's promised her five-year-old son, Wyatt, they will be happy there. She's promised herself this is the place to begin again after her husband's death in Afghanistan. The cabin holds so many wonderful memories, but from the moment she crosses its threshold Allie is seized with doubts. Has she done the right thing uprooting her little boy from the only home he's ever known? Allie and her son are embraced by the townsfolk, and her reunions with old acquaintancesher friend Jax, now a young mother of three with one more on the way, and Caroline, the owner of the local coffee shopare joyous ones. And then there are newcomers like Walker Ford, who mostly keeps to himselfuntil he takes a shine to Wyatt . . . and to Allie. Everyone knows that moving forward is never easy, and as the long, lazy days of summer take hold, Allie must learn to unlock the hidden longings of her heart, and to accept that in order to face the future she must also confrontand understandwhat has come before.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
Pick icon
100%
review
Wildly_Bookish
post image
Pickpick

Finished book number five for the #readtherainbow challenge, with Up At Butternut Lake by Mary McNear for green.
⭐⭐⭐⭐

blurb
Wildly_Bookish
post image

This counts as green, right?

11 likes1 stack add
blurb
Halechr
post image

Listening to quick, fun audiobooks and while finishing up projects is keeping me going. One more week until break!!

6 likes1 stack add
review
BookofWords
post image
Mehso-so

Very predictable, very light reading. You know where the story is going from chapter one. With that being said I needed a little of that now. I wish there was a little more depth to the characters. And the B story line needed some work.

britt_brooke Cute reading buddies! 7y
Cinfhen Echoing @britt_brooke 😍😍 7y
Smrloomis Super cute! 💜 7y
16 likes3 comments
review
intothehallofbooks
post image
Pickpick

Series opener focusing on a small lake town with several well developed characters. The author mentions in her note a theme of confronting the past to move forward with life; this is done with care in each character's case. Great setting 🚤☀️ I loved this + am moving straight to the second book.

18 likes2 stack adds