Set in NY and Sullivan's Island, SC, Miriam Swanson is a divorced woman with an estranged family. but some great friends. She has a wonderful mother in SC and a crazy talking bird. This is one of the author's best novels. You'll love it.

I have read all of the other books written by Dorothea Benton Frank and this for me was the best one. I have lived in Mt Pleasant, SC and her descriptions of the low country are very nostalgic.

This novel by Dorothea Benton Frank is one of her best.It is the story of Miriam who refinds herself on Sullivan's Island.She has been living in isolation except for her neighbors in her townhome in NYC and worrying about her "position" on her committees. She comes to some self realizations while visiting her mother on the island.She loosens up and has some fun! There were places that made me laugh out loud and moments that were so touching.I can't wait for D.B.Frank's next book.

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Beautiful story of growing up when you are already grown.

Meet Miriam Elizabeth Swanson, in a full-blown snit, buoyed by a fabulous cast who run the gamut from insufferable to wonderful. First is the arrival of Liz Harper, Miriam's tenant from Birmingham, who sets a new cycle in motion. Then her other tenant, Kevin, stalwart companion with more style than Cary Grant, shakes Miriam out of her fog to see which battles are worth the fight. Next, her estranged son announces he's marrying a Jamaican woman. And what about her ex-husband, Charles, and that sordid lingerie model of his? Well, Harry, her African Gray parrot, has plenty of opinions. Finally, you'll laugh and cry when she meets a man named Harrison who changes her into a gal named Mellie.

Miriam spins out from the revolving door of her postured life as a Manhattan quasi-socialite while she thirsts, no, starves for recognition. How did she become what she hates the most, and what does she endure to realize it? And where are the answers? It takes a few spins, dips, and one spectacular fall until Miriam gets her head on straight. Then in a whoosh she's off to the enchanted and mysterious land of Sullivans Island, deep in the Lowcountry of South Carolina.

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