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Adrift
189 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published January 1, 1954
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Sara Ware Bassett
78 books6 followersSara Ware Bassett (1872 – 1968) was a prolific American author of fiction and nonfiction. Her novels primarily deal with New England characters, and most of them are set in two fictional Cape Cod villages she created, Belleport and Wilton.
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July 27, 2022
This book had so much promise, but I felt as if the author took the easy way out.
Anne marries young. Her husband, Leon, goes off to war, and when he returns, he seems to be a different person. His new found friends find illegal ways of making money. Anne hates the way her husband is behaving, but she’s loyal and sticks around.
One day, Leon leaves and doesn’t come home. Anne stays in their apartment until she is almost out of money. She sees an ad about a small cottage for sale in a small town, and she decides to spend what little money she has in purchasing it.
When she gets there, she finds a run down, uninhabitable shack. The town’s people take pity on her and help to fix it up.
As time goes by, they all wonder about Anne and what her life was before coming there. Rumors run rampant, but Anne never tells.
When she finds a job working for a wealthy family who spend their summers in the small coastal town, she finds out that a piece of jewelry that her husband had given her was actually stolen from the family she now works for.
The mystery of what happened to Anne’s husband and how she deals with having the stolen heirloom are all answered, but not in a thriller-y type of way, which is what would’ve made this decent book so much better.
The ending wasn’t what I had hoped. I gave it 3.5 stars, rounded down here.
Anne marries young. Her husband, Leon, goes off to war, and when he returns, he seems to be a different person. His new found friends find illegal ways of making money. Anne hates the way her husband is behaving, but she’s loyal and sticks around.
One day, Leon leaves and doesn’t come home. Anne stays in their apartment until she is almost out of money. She sees an ad about a small cottage for sale in a small town, and she decides to spend what little money she has in purchasing it.
When she gets there, she finds a run down, uninhabitable shack. The town’s people take pity on her and help to fix it up.
As time goes by, they all wonder about Anne and what her life was before coming there. Rumors run rampant, but Anne never tells.
When she finds a job working for a wealthy family who spend their summers in the small coastal town, she finds out that a piece of jewelry that her husband had given her was actually stolen from the family she now works for.
The mystery of what happened to Anne’s husband and how she deals with having the stolen heirloom are all answered, but not in a thriller-y type of way, which is what would’ve made this decent book so much better.
The ending wasn’t what I had hoped. I gave it 3.5 stars, rounded down here.
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