June 1, 2008
Three women meet at a summerhouse in Maine at the request of their therapist. They are strangers and know only that something is wrong in their lives. Gradually Amy, Faith, and Zo' open up about their problems--Amy cannot get over a miscarriage, Faith spent her life caring for an ill husband and dealing with a nasty mother-in-law, and Zo' lost her memory in a car accident only to find out the whole town hates her, and she refuses to find out why. Madame Zoya has the ability to send people back to the past to correct mistakes in their lives. She takes Faith and Zo' with her to late-sixteenth-century England, and their lives are transformed. In Deverauxs sequel to The Summerhouse (2001), the three women bond while learning to overcome their past and become the women that they were meant to be in an entertaining time-travel fantasy that will leave readers smiling.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2008, American Library Association.)