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Up at Butternut Lake: A Novel (A Butternut Lake Novel)
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About Up At Butternut Lake: A Novel
Product Description 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 acquaintances—her friend Jax, now a young mother of three with one more on the way, and Caroline, the owner of the local coffee shop—are joyous ones. And then there are newcomers like Walker Ford, who mostly keeps to himself—until 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 confront—and understand—what has come before. From Booklist When widow Allie Beckett returns to her long-shuttered family cabin in Butternut Lake, Minnesota, with her five-year-old son, she reconnects with old friends and makes new ones as she still struggles to face and understand her wrenching loss. After Allie’s husband was killed in Afghanistan, Allie did her best to hold things together for her and her son, until she decided life would be easier if she retreated to the lake where she spent the best summers of her life. Her old friend Jax, now married with her own children and her own sadnesses, becomes a bedrock of support as Allie fumbles her way back into the small lakeside community, gripped by the shyness of being a stranger again. But it’s her neighbor, enigmatic Walker Ford, who eventually lights her fire and makes her believe there might be love again in her future. All the characters learn and grow as their lives intertwine. Hampered slightly here and there by an overreliance on exposition, this nevertheless charming debut should attract fans of Susan Wiggs and Luanne Rice. --Julie Trevelyan Review McNear's charmingly light "Up at Butternut Lake" gives voice to this enduring Midwestern fantasy in easy-to-swallow prose.... It would have been simple for McNear to tie up every plot line with a neat bow, but her writing proves more complex than mere vacation fluff. Still, if you're packing your lakeside tote and hefting the canoe to the top of your vehicle, you might want to take along "Up at Butternut Lake." The North Woods won't be the same without some heartfelt reading to go along with the smell of a campfire and toasting marshmallows. -----Minneapolis Star Tribune Up at Butternut Lake is....a mostly heartwarming story of moving on from painful parts of one's past. Well-written with realistic characters, this novel is one that you will find yourself wanting to finish in one sitting if you can. And readers who enjoy this story will rejoice at the thought of more novels in the future set in this charming little town. ---San Francisco Book Review From the Author The story of Allie and Wyatt started to take shape in my mind a few years ago when I was watching a TV news story about a local National Guard unit that had been deployed to Afghanistan. In the piece they interviewed the young widow of one of its members, who also had a young son, and she looked absolutely stunned by what had happened to her husband. And I remembered thinking that when her husband joined the National Guard it had probably never occurred to either of them that one day he would be fight
