Novels set on the US east coast in place like Maine or Cape Cod have a certain something that I enjoy. This one is about a lifelong friendship between two very different women with shared histories and buried secrets. Tested in the twilight of their lives, they must come to grips with their love of the place and the legacy they will leave. Fellowship Point reads like a classic 19th-century novel in its beautifully woven, multilayered narrative, but it is entirely contemporary in the themes it explores; a deep and empathic interest in women’s lives, the class differences that divided us, the struggle to protect the natural world, and, above all, a reckoning with intimacy, history, and posterity.
The writing was a curious combination of delightful and boring, at times overlong and overwritten, but then suddenly flowing with eloquence. I did love the descriptions of how Agnes came to write her bestselling children’s book series and the ending held a satisfying surprise.
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