The lake of dreams

Resource Information

The work The lake of dreams represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The lake of dreams

Statement of responsibility

Kim Edwards

Creator

• Edwards, Kim, 1958-

Subject

• Large type books
• New York (State) -- Fiction
• Psychological fiction
• Adult children -- Family relationships -- Fiction
• Psychological fiction

Genre

• Large type books
• Psychological fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

In this book, the author tells the story of a woman's homecoming, a family secret, and the old house that holds the key to the true legacy of a family. At a crossroads in her life, Lucy Jarrett returns home from Japan, only to find herself haunted by her father's unresolved death a decade ago. Old longings stirred up by Keegan Fall, a local glass artist who was once her passionate first love, lead her into the unexpected. Late one night, as she paces the hallways of her family's rambling lakeside house, she discovers, locked in a window seat, a collection of objects that first appear to be useless curiosities. But soon they reveal a deeper and more complex family past. As Lucy discovers and explores the traces of her lineage from an heirloom tapestry and dusty political tracts to a web of allusions depicted in stained glass windows throughout upstate New York, the family story she has always known is shattered. Lucy's quest for the truth reconfigures her family's history, links her to a unique slice of the suffragette movement, and yields dramatic insights that embolden her to live freely. With surprises at every turn, this is a saga in which every element emerges as a carefully place piece of the puzzle

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3555.D942

LC item number

L35 2011b

Literary form

fiction

Series statement

Thorndike Press large print basic