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Islands
Islands | Anne Rivers Siddons
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Anny Butler is a caretaker, a nurturer, first for her own brothers and sisters, and then as a director of an agency devoted to the welfare of children. What she has never had is a real family. That changes when she meets and marries Lewis Aiken, an exuberant surgeon fifteen years older than Anny. When they marry, she finds her familynot a traditional one, but a group of Charleston childhood friends who are inseparable, who are one another's surrogate family. They are called the Scrubs, and they all, in some way, have the common cord of family. Instantly upon meeting them at the old beach house on Sullivan's Island, which they co-own, Anny knows that she has found home and family. They vow that, when the time comes, they will find a place where they can live together by the sea. Bad things begin to happena hurricane, a fire, deathsbut still the remaining Scrubs cling together. They are watched over and bolstered by Camilla Curry, the heart and core of their group, always the healer. Anny herself allows Camilla to enfold and to care for her. It is the first time she has felt this kind of love and support.
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Andrea4
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Someone was being very sucky and needing attention while mom puzzled and listened to this audiobook. 🐕
Third Siddons and I still like the House one best, but this was second. She can really write about friendships and develop characters (and atmosphere/settings) well.
Also this one had one hell of a plot twist I was not expecting and one I feel points towards another genre she could have written in.

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Allthebookclubs
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I read this book after working a few years as a child welfare caseworker. It was appealing; the aging social worker meets a wealthy man who takes a liking to her thus she becomes Cinderella. It‘s a good summer book and Siddons does well with character development.

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Islands | Anne Rivers Siddons
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