The Bitter and Sweet of Cherry Season

Literature & Fiction

Fader, Molly

Genre Fiction

Graydon House

"A breathtaking story of an extraordinary friendship. Molly Fader has penned an unforgettable novel that is sure to be one of the year's best." --Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Veil Two friends. A lifetime of secrets. One sparkling story. 1967 Iowa. Nursing school roommates BettyKay and Kitty don't have much in common. BettyKay has risked her family's disapproval to pursue her dreams away from her small town. Cosmopolitan Kitty has always&nbsp;relied on&nbsp;her beauty and smarts&nbsp;to get by and to hide&nbsp;a&nbsp;painful secret. Yet the two share a determination to prove themselves in a changing world, forging an unlikely bond on a campus unkind to women. Before their first year is up, tragedy strikes, and the women's paths are forced apart. But against all odds, a decades-long friendship forms, persevering&nbsp;through love, marriage, failure, and death,&nbsp;from the jungles of Vietnam to the glamorous circles of Hollywood. Until one snowy night leads their relationship to the ultimate crossroads. Fifty years later, two estranged sisters are shocked when a famous movie star shows up at their mother's funeral. Over one tumultuous weekend, the women must reckon with a dazzling truth about their family that will alter their lives forever...

The Sunshine Girls: A Novel

It's been seventeen years since the tragic summer the McAvoy sisters fell apart. Lindy, the wild one, left home, carved out a new life in the city and never looked back. Delia, the sister who stayed, became a mother, raising her daughters and running the family shop. But now, with their mother's ailing health, Delia has no choice but to welcome Lindy home. As the two sisters try to put their family back in order, one turbulent night leads to a shocking revelation. The women must face the past they've avoided for a decade. And there's nothing like an old secret to bring the McAvoy women back together and stronger than ever.

The McAvoy Sisters Book of Secrets

Thorndike Press Large Print

"A stunning story about family and hope that unfolds unexpectedly but beautifully, like a Michigan summer sunset over an orchard." --Viola Shipman, bestselling author of The Summer Cottage and The Clover Girls In cherry season, anything is possible... Everything Hope knows about the Orchard House is from the stories of her late mother. So when she arrives at the northern Michigan family estate late one night with a terrible secret and her ten-year-old daughter in tow, she's not sure if she'll be welcomed or turned away with a shotgun by the aunt she has never met. Hope's aunt, Peg, has lived in the Orchard House all her life, though the property has seen better days. She agrees to take Hope in if, in exchange, Hope helps with the cherry harvest--not exactly Hope's specialty, but she's out of options. As Hope works the orchard alongside her aunt, daughter and a kind man she finds increasingly difficult to ignore, a new life begins to blossom. But the mistakes of the past are never far behind, and soon the women will find themselves fighting harder than ever for their family roots and for each other.

The Bitter and Sweet of Cherry Season: A Novel

“The talented Molly Fader will keep you turning the pages right down to the oh-so-satisfying final twist.” ―Susan Wiggs, New York Times bestselling author What drove their family apart just might bring them back together… It’s been seventeen years since the tragic summer the McAvoy sisters fell apart. Lindy, the wild one, left home, carved out a new life in the city and never looked back. Delia, the sister who stayed, became a mother herself, raising her daughters and running the family shop in their small Ohio hometown on the shores of Lake Erie. But now, with their mother’s ailing health and a rebellious teenager to rein in, Delia has no choice but to welcome Lindy home. As the two sisters try to put their family back in order, they finally have the chance to reclaim what’s been lost over the years: for Delia, professional dreams and a happy marriage, and for Lindy, a sense of home and an old flame—and best of all, each other. But when one turbulent night leads to a shocking revelation, the women must face the past they’ve avoided for a decade. And there’s nothing like an old secret to bring the McAvoy women back together and stronger than ever. With warm affection and wry wit, Molly Fader’s The McAvoy Sisters Book of Secrets is about the ties that bind family and the power of secrets to hold us back or set us free.

The McAvoy Sisters Book of Secrets: A Novel

United States

“The talented Molly Fader will keep you turning the pages right down to the oh-so-satisfying final twist.” ―Susan Wiggs, New York Times bestselling author\nDelia McAvoy is juggling it all: motherhood, the family shop, a rocky marriage. But it’s not until her own mother’s health begins to decline that Delia realizes she has no choice. She has to call the one person she’d hoped to avoid asking for help—her sister.\nLindy, the wild McAvoy sister, hasn’t been home in a long time. Decades before, she traded small-town life for the big city and never looked back. Now, home for the summer, Lindy has the chance to reclaim what’s been lost over the years—her roots, an old flame and, of course, her relationship with Delia.\nBut just when the two sisters seem to be getting their family back on track, a revelation from the past comes to light, forcing them to face the events of one summer long ago. And there’s nothing like an old secret to bring the McAvoy women back together and stronger than ever.

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The Sunshine Girls

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The Bitter and Sweet of Cherry Season

The Sunshine Girls: A Novel

The McAvoy Sisters Book of Secrets

The Bitter and Sweet of Cherry Season: A Novel

The McAvoy Sisters Book of Secrets: A Novel

The McAvoy Sisters Book of Secrets

The Bitter and Sweet of Cherry Season

The Bitter and Sweet of Cherry Season

The Sunshine Girls

The Sunshine Girls