The Cliffs: 'Entrancing ... filled with mystery' Reese Witherspoon, Reese's Book Club Pick July Pick

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A REESE'S BOOK CLUB JULY PICK

A deeply satisfying and enjoyable novel about family, secrets, ghosts and homecoming


'Entrancing ... filled with mystery' Reese Witherspoon, Reese's Book Club July Picks

'I could not put this book down' Ann Napolitano, author of Hello Beautiful

'Compulsively readable ... funny, heartbreaking' Oprah Daily

On a secluded cliff overlooking the ocean sits a Victorian house that contains a century's worth of secrets. By the time Jane Flanagan discovers the house as a teenager, it has long been abandoned - yet there are still clothes in the closets, marbles rolling across the floors, and dishes in the cupboards. The place is an irresistible mystery to Jane, and becomes a hideaway for her, a place to escape her troubled, volatile mother.

Twenty years later, now a Harvard archivist, she returns home to Maine following a terrible mistake that threatens both her career and her marriage. Jane is horrified to find the Victorian is now barely recognizable. The new owner, Genevieve, a summer person from Beacon Hill, has gutted it, transforming the house into a glossy white monstrosity straight out of a magazine. Convinced that the house is haunted, Genevieve hires Jane to research the history of the place and the women who lived there. The story Jane uncovers - of lovers lost at sea, romantic longing, shattering loss, artistic awakening, historical artefacts stolen and sold, and the long shadow of colonialism - is even older than Maine itself ...

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About the author

J. Courtney Sullivan is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Commencement, Maine, The Engagements, Saints For All Occasions, and Friends and Strangers. Courtney's writing has also appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Chicago Tribune, New York Magazine, Elle, Glamour, Allure and O: The Oprah Magazine, among others. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and children.

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