In this #1 bestselling page-turner from "the queen of beach reads" (New York Magazine), a Nantucket novelist has one final summer to protect her secrets while her loved ones on earth learn to live without their golden girl.

On a perfect June day, Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while jogging near her home on Nantucket.

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A girl tells her mother all the special things she would do for her if their positions were reversed and she was the mother.

When Lulu gets tired of being told she is too little to do things, she decides to go far, far away.

This lovely and lyrical board book reassures a child that although all things change or come to an end, a parent's love lasts forever.

Publisher Annotation: A little girl observes, one by one, things that give her pleasure ? the apricot jam on her toast, the light-up shoes that make her feet bounce, the sparkling river, the pencil whose color comes out like a ribbon. But even after the jar becomes empty, and the shoes grow too small, and the pencil is all used up, one thing will never change. In a tenderly imagined story, Mary Murphy celebrates the intimacy of the bond between mother...