One after another, people find their way to Lost Lake, looking for something that they weren’t sure they needed in the first place: love, closure, a second chance, peace, a mystery solved, a heart mended. Perhaps at Lost Lake her little girl can cling to her own childhood for just a little longer… and maybe Kate herself can rediscover something that slipped through her fingers so long ago. Now she’s all too familiar with those things, but she knows about hope too, thanks to her resilient daughter Devin, and her own willingness to start moving forward. Lost Lake is where Kate Pheris spent her last best summer at the age of twelve, before she learned of loneliness, and heartbreak, and loss. Until one last chance at family knocks on her door. It’s a lot, but not enough to keep Eby from relinquishing Lost Lake to a developer with cash in hand, and calling this her final summer at the lake. All that’s left is a once-charming collection of lakeside cabins succumbing to the Southern Georgia heat and damp, and an assortment of faithful misfits drawn back to Lost Lake year after year by their own unspoken dreams and desires. Most of her demanding extended family are gone. Now Lost Lake is about to slip into Eby’s past. Just an old photo and a few words on a small square of heavy stock, but when she saw it, she knew she was seeing her future. The first time Eby Pim saw Lost Lake, it was on a picture postcard. Other Birds still has my heart as my favorite but Lost Lake was still a solid 5 star read for me.

She is one of the most atmospheric writers and creates settings and characters that you can’t help but fall in love with.

Lost Lake was all things magical realism and I adored it. The first one that caught my eye is an older title…2014 I think.

After reading Other Birds last year I knew I had to seek out all of her books and devour them. Also known as the woman who made me fall in love with Magical Realism. First up we have Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen.

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