The edge of winter [large print] / Luanne Rice.

ISBN: 9780739478790
ISBN: 0739478796
ISBN: 9780739327074
ISBN: 0739327070
Physical Description: xiii, 556 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Edition: First large print edition.
Publisher: New York : Random House Large Print, 2007.

Summary:

Neve Halloran and her daughter have shared a fierce love for the austere beauty of Rhode Island s South County ever since Neve guided Mickey s first baby steps along the sandy shore. Now, with Mickey a teenager and Neve s last hope for happiness with her daughter s loving but unstable father gone, both will struggle to make a new life together amid the windswept landscape that sustains them. Captivated by a fragile wildlife sanctuary, Mickey will move toward womanhood in the company of a lonely boy who shares her instinctive way with the creatures of the coast. And Neve will find herself drawn to a man who has devoted his life to the sanctuary, but who is unable to share the pain of a recent loss or reconnect with the father who still bears the scars of World War II. As winter gives way to spring, and spring to summer, a secret will emerge that has lain buried in the depths just offshore for decades, a secret that will galvanize the small seaside community. For the waters bear their own vestige of the pastand their ceaseless rhythms may point the way to hope and new beginnings.