The Meryl Streep Movie Club
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Escape to the breathtaking coast of Maine and let the unmissable novel from Mia March brighten up your summer. Perfect for fans of Jenny Colgan, Veronica Henry and The Jane Austen Book Club.
On the coast of Maine sits The Three Captains Inn, a haven for tourists and locals alike. When Lolly, the owner, summons her nieces home, they assume she’s planning to sell the inn, the place they called home after they lost their parents in a car accident that also claimed the life of Lolly’s husband. Little do they know, the truth is far more unimaginable . . .
Along with Kat, Lolly’s daughter, the women reunite for their first summer together in many years and home truths and long buried secrets begin to emerge. Then movie-lover Lolly invites her family to one of her legendary movie nights – this month’s theme: Meryl Streep – and what was intended to be a few hours’ distraction ends up making them question everything they thought they knew about life, love and one another.
As each woman sees her complicated life reflected through the magic of cinema, will they be able to find their own happily-ever-afters before it’s too late?
‘A treat for movie lovers and fans of meaningful women’s fiction’
Romantic Times
'A heartwarming, spirit-lifting read just in time for beach season'
Kirkus Reviews
'A touching story of self-discovery and the strength of family'
Booklist
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Art imitates art in March's impossibly romantic debut about lost-and-found love and a frayed family repairing itself with the help of platitudes plucked from Streep's prolific oeuvre. Streep's films are as "good as a chicken soup, a best friend, a therapist, and a stiff drink," Maine bed-and-breakfast owner Lolly Weller insists, regarding the regular viewings she holds at Maine's quaint Three Captains' Inn, where she raised daughter Kat, now 25, and nieces Isabel, 31, and June, 28 (the three trade narration duties), after a car crash on New Year's Eve killed Lolly's husband, sister, and brother-in-law. Fifteen years after the accident, Lolly summons the women to tell them she has cancer. By now, each is struggling with her own heartache: Isabel's failed marriage to her childhood sweetheart, Edward; single mom June's search for her son's dad; and baking artisan Kat's ambivalence about marrying her best friend, Oliver. Streep's films have answers for all, including Lolly, who has a secret of her own to work out. There are no surprises, no problems too tough, nor men too insensitive, in this paean to Streep and happy endings. Consume with a bowl of popcorn and plenty of hankies.
