THE PAPER PALACE BY MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER

THE PAPER PALACE BY MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER

Whoa.

Now that's a book.

This is the one about Elle, a 50 year-old wife and mother who's spending another summer at the family's rustic Cape Cod camp. The story flips back and forth between the 24 hours following her having sex with her childhood friend against a cabin wall, while their mothers and spouses sipped grappa around the kitchen table, and the 50 years that led to that point.

I love stories set in sand dunes and Manhattan apartments with doormen. Where a teenage girl can stand in her bedroom and look across their central courtyard and into the kitchen to watch her mother down a glass of wine in one gulp. Where parents switch out partners like square dancers and inconvenient children get sent somewhere else. And where families have secrets.

Not a thriller, nor a whodunit ....but a pageturner nonetheless.