From Kirkus Reviews: A second novel, The Weir was her first, which is again realistic, regional writing of a Maine backwater, with much that is warm- and winning- for all its indigenous integrity. It is the very likeable story of a small community, and in particular two brothers, Willie and Hod Stilwell, who defied the town with their independence, indifference to material concerns, their seemingly shiftless life of lobstering and fishing at the end of the island, and their refusal to sell their stake of land in spite of a very good offer. It is also the story of Ann Freeman who returns home after years in New York, who overrides her father as she takes a shack near the Stilwells, and falls in love with Hod. And lastly it is the story of Donny, an orphan, farmed out by the state to Mrs. Mackay who is a little harder on him because he's not her own, who drives him- without realizing it- to misdeeds which land him in reform school, from which he is rescued by Willie who adopts him and gives him the love he needs. This has a very real quality, in the place, in the people.
