Cottage at Glass Beach / Heather Barbieri / 302 pages

Nora Cunningham escapes to Burke's Island, the charming isolated locale where she was born and lived until age 5, with her two daughters Ella (12) and Annie (7) after her Attorney General husband Malcolm, takes up with a younger woman.  That part of the story could have been ripped from today's headlines.  The other part of the story has more of a mysterious mythical cast.  Here we have a woman trying to find out about her past, decide who she is, and choose the path for her future.  The people on the Island are intriguing, Nora's past in which her charismatic mother disappears without a trace is mysterious, and what Nora encounters on the island seems magical.  It's chick lit at it's finest.  You will read it in a day and want to take a trip to Burke's Island yourself.