Around Again - by Suzanne Strempek Shea (Paperback)

About the Book

With a gift for creating fiction that is "rich with an unusual sweetness" ("USA Today") and full of endearing characters, the bestselling author of "Lily of the Valley" delivers a moving portrait of a woman confronting her past.

Book Synopsis

When Robyn Panek is summoned by her ailing uncle Pal to operate his pony ring for one final season on his Massachusetts farm, her years away form the vacation spot of her youth seem an unbridgeable gap. But she is pulled by forces stronger than memory to piece together the events of that last childhood summer -- when a dark mystery swirled about her friend Lucy Dragon. They called her crazy, and Robyn must at last uncover the truth about Lucy's sudden disappearance -- and make peace with her own first love, Frankie. Now the future of Pal's six ponies, who circle the ring five times for a dollar a ride, is as uncertain as Robyn's own, as she confronts the past she ran from so long ago.

Review Quotes

Boston Sunday Globe A story of charm and uncertainty -- with delightful comic touches.

The Capital Times (Madison, WI) A sweet summer story ripe for reading in the backyard hammock.

The MetroWest Daily News (MA) [Shea] clearly knows how to generate untainted merriment.

Ann Hood The Providence Sunday Journal Her best book yet...Shea's writing in Around Again absolutely sings.

About the Author

Suzanne Strempek Shea, winner of the 2000 New England Book Award for Fiction, is the author of the novels Selling the Lite of Heaven; Hoopi Shoopi Donna; Lily of the Valley; and Around Again; and the memoirs Songs from a Lead-Lined Room: Notes -- High and Low -- From My Journey Through Breast Cancer and Radiation; and Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama, and Other Page-Turning Adventures from a Year in a Bookstore. She lives in Bondsville, Massachusetts.