The Firelight Girls: A Novel - Softcover

McLaren, Kaya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250105021 ISBN 13: 9781250105028

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2016

Synopsis

“A sweet, touching view of the evolution of love and friendships. For readers who enjoy Kristin Hannah or Luanne Rice.” -Library Journal
The years spent at summer camp are indelibly etched on your heart. Can you ever really say good-bye to the place that made you who you are? This is the question that haunts three generations of women when a desperate, homeless teenager turns up at the campground they all used to call home. Now it’s up to the former Firelight Girls to help her. There’s Laura, who once believed in marriage but no longer knows if her own is worth fighting for; Shannon, who spent the summers of her youth as a camp counselor and is now directionless after her career implodes; Ethel, the camp director whose heart has been broken beyond repair; and Ruby, who betrayed Ethel years ago and is still looking for a chance to make amends. Can these women all come together and find a way to save a young girl for whom all hope seems lost―and recapture their own dreams along the way?
“Generous...big-hearted...irresistible.”―Marisa de los Santos

About this title

About the Author:

Kaya McLaren spent four summers in college working at Camp Zanika on Lake Wenatchee in Washington State, and fifteen years later returned to run the teen programs for two more. In addition to her camp experience, she's been an elementary teacher, an art teacher, an archaeologist, and a massage therapist. Although her roots are in Washington, she currently resides wherever the wind takes her.

Review:

“Touching, brilliantly insightful, and deeply compassionate...The Firelight Girls is a story of the places we love and how we never outgrow them, and a sweet reminder that sometimes we have to go back before we can move forward.” ―Amy Hill Hearth, New York Times bestselling author of Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years and the national bestseller, Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society

“What a generous, big-hearted book this is. McLaren explores her subjects--friendship, regret, rebirth, the irresistible pull of place--with such tenderness that you'll find yourself wishing you could be a Firelight Girl, too.” ―Marisa de los Santos, New York Times bestselling author of Love Walked In

“Presents a sweet, touching view of the evolution of love and friendships. For readers who enjoy Kristin Hannah or Luanne Rice.” ―Library Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1250105021
• ISBN 13: 9781250105028
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 352