01822cam a2200325 i 4500 500951273 ER5 20210428120000.0 210304s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780778311386 hardcover 0778311384 hardcover ER5 rda Novak, Brenda. The bookstore on the beach : a novel / Brenda Novak. Toronto, Ontario : Mira, [2021] Toronto, Ontario : Mira, [2021] 422 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes: Questions for Discussion; Conversation with the Author. "Eighteen months ago, Autumn Divac's husband went missing. Her desperate search has yielded no answers, and she can't imagine moving forward without him. But for the sake of their two teenage children, she has to try. Autumn takes her kids home for the summer to the charming beachside town where she was raised. She seeks comfort working alongside her mother and aunt at their bookshop, only to learn that her daughter is facing a huge life change and her mother has been hiding a terrible secret for years. And when she runs into the boy who stole her heart in high school, old feelings start to bubble up again. Is she free to love him, or should she hold out hope for her husband's return? She can only trust her heart…and hope it won't lead her astray."--Dust jacket. 20210428. Married women Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. Bookstores Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Romance fiction.