Water Music - by Marcia Peck (Paperback)

About the Book

In her increasingly desperate efforts to salvage her parents' marriage, Lily discovers betrayals beyond her understanding as well as the small ways in which people try to rescue each other. She draws on her music lessons and her love of Cape Cod--from Sagamore and Monomoy to Nauset Spit and the Wellfleet Dunes, seeking safe passage from the limited world of her salt marsh to the larger, open ocean.

Book Synopsis

In her increasingly desperate efforts to salvage her parents' marriage, Lily discovers betrayals beyond her understanding as well as the small ways in which people try to rescue each other. She draws on her music lessons and her love of Cape Cod-from Sagamore and Monomoy to Nauset Spit and the Wellfleet Dunes, seeking safe passage from the limited world of her salt marsh to the larger, open ocean.

Review Quotes

"Wise, funny and deeply moving." -Carol Dines, author of This Distance We Call Love and The Take-Over Friend

"Observant and sensitive, deeply attuned to the beauty and fragility of the natural and human worlds." -Andy Brown, author of The Tree Climbing Cure and Grace Notes and Other Poems

"Peck has written a moving and melodic triumph of imagination and story, a fine harmony of intimacies and passions." -Nicole Helget, author of The Summer of Ordinary Ways