A magnificent storytelling feat (The Boston Globe) story of lifelong friendship between two
very different superbly depicted (The Wall Street Journal) women with shared histories
divisive loyalties hidden sorrows and eighty years of summers on a pristine point of land on
the coast of Maine set across the arc of the 20th century. Celebrated children's book author
Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy-to complete what she knows will be the final
volume of her pseudonymously written Franklin Square novels and even more consuming to
permanently protect the peninsula of majestic coast in Maine known as Fellowship Point. To
donate the land to a trust Agnes must convince shareholders to dissolve a generations-old
partnership. And one of those shareholders is her best friend Polly. Polly Wister has led a
different kind of life than Agnes: that of a well-off married woman with children defined by
her devotion to her husband a philosophy professor with an inflated sense of stature. She
strives to create beauty and harmony in her home in her friendships and in her family. Polly
soon finds her loyalties torn between the wishes of her best friend and the wishes of her three
sons-but what is it that Polly wants herself? Agnes's designs are further muddied when an
enterprising young book editor named Maud Silver sets out to convince Agnes to write her
memoirs. Agnes's resistance cannot prevent long-buried memories and secrets from coming to
light with far-reaching repercussions for all. An ambitious and satisfying tale (The Washington
Post) Fellowship Point reads like a 19th-century epic but it is entirely contemporary in its
reflections on aging writing stewardship legacies independence and responsibility. At its
heart Fellowship Point is about caring for the places and people we love...This magnificent
novel affirms that change and growth are possible at any age (The Christian Science Monitor).
