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The year is 1929 and honora beecher and her husband; sexton; are just settling into a new marriage and a cottage on the coast of new hampshire. while honora fixes up the derelict house and searches for bits of sea glass on the beach; sexton risks everything they own to buy the house they both love. along with millions of other americans; he is blindsided by the stock market crash and finds himself penniless. the only work he can find is at a nearby mill; where a labour conflict is erupting into violence. shaken by forces they scarcely understand; honora and sexton try to build a marriage and home while overwhelmed by passions of every kind. writing with the power and immediacy that have made her novels bestsellers; shreve unfolds interlocking lives; each with its own share of love; loss and challenge. this is another gripping and unforgettable story of the human heart from one of the most accomplished novelists of our time.