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Synopsis

When the thing you love most is taken from you, how do you go on?

Aboard their sailboat, Chelone, Megan and Rex Van Dorn look to all the world like a couple who are living their dream. But when people they meet ask, ‘Do you have children?’ Meg doesn’t know how to answer. For Meg and Rex took to the sea following the death of their only child, Evan, in a road accident – killed by Cindy Ann Kreisler, who, back when they were teenagers, had been Meg’s best friend.

Cindy Ann’s three daughters walked away from the crash unharmed, and in spite of evidence to suggest that she has been drinking, she seems to slip back easily into her former life. Fox Harbour – a town where everyone knows everybody else – offers Meg and Rex no hope for escaping from their anger, and their despair. Their only plan, as they set sail, is to put as much distance between themselves and Cindy Ann as possible.

But when Meg has to return to Fox Harbour for her brother’s wedding, she is forced to face the complex ties that bind her to the woman who has wounded her so badly. For as Meg knows better than anyone, Cindy Ann has secrets and sorrows of her own – which date back to the summer of their brief friendship.

Impassioned, insightful and beautifully written, Blue Water is a book you will never forget: a story about people facing the unthinkable, and learning to move on.

Praise for Manette Ansay

Ansay is a powerful storyteller with lyrical gifts - Amy Tan

Witty and perceptive... Anne Tyler meets Amy Bloom with added value - Eve

A writer with a gift for a persuasive and shapely narrative - New York Times Book Review

The tone of the novel is rich - intriguing, regretful and hopeful - Irish Tatler

Intense and deeply affecting... this heartbreaking novel resonates with wisdom about life's hard truths - Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Manette Ansay is the New York Times bestselling author of four novels: Midnight Champagne, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner, River Angel, Sister and Vinegar Hill, an Oprah Winfrey Book Club Selection; a short story collection, Read This and Tell Me What It Says; and a memoir, Limbo, of her battle with illness to begin her writing career.