Enchanted August Author:Brenda Bowen Hopewell Cottage — Little Lost Island, Maine. — Old, pretty cottage to rent on a small island. — Springwater, blueberries, sea glass. — August. — So reads an ad on Lottie Wilkes’ and Rose Arbuthnot’s children’s preschool bulletin board. — When the mothers arrive on the island, they are transformed b... more »y the salt air; the breathtaking views; the long, lazy days; and the happy routine of lobster, corn, and cocktails on the wraparound porch. By the time of the late-August blue moon, real life and its complications have finally fallen far, far away. For on this idyllic island they gradually begin to open up: to one another and to the possibilities of lives quite different from the ones they’ve been leading. Change can’t be that hard, can it?« less