Moon Over Edisto
Moon Over Edisto by Beth Webb Hart, published by Thomas Nelson Inc in 2013, is a contemporary fiction novel that explores themes of family, love, and reconciliation. This edition spans 310 pages and is written in English. The story centers on Julia, who is confronted by her past when her estranged best friend, Marney, asks her to return to Edisto Island to care for her half-siblings during a health crisis. Julia’s journey back to her childhood home forces her to confront long-buried emotions and the complexities of her family’s fractured relationships.
As Julia navigates her week on Edisto, she grapples with her feelings towards Marney and the memories of her once-happy family life. The narrative delves into the struggles of her mother, Mary Ellen, and her sister, Meg, as they each cope with the fallout from a broken marriage. Readers will find a rich exploration of family dynamics, the impact of betrayal, and the possibility of healing under the serene backdrop of South Carolina’s lowcountry. This edition also includes discussion questions for book clubs, making it suitable for group reading and reflection.
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The past has come knocking on Julia’s door. Can she summon the courage to answer betrayal with love?
Once, they were the happiest family under the sun, crabbing and fishing and painting on beautiful Edisto Island in South Carolina’s lowcountry. Then everything went wrong, and twenty years later the Bennett family is still in pieces. Mary Ellen still struggles to understand why her picture-perfect marriage came apart. Daughter Meg keeps a death grip on her own family, controlling her relationships at a distance. And Julia thought she left it all behind.
Julia’s best friend, Marney, broke up her parents’ marriage years ago. Now Marney shows up at her Manhattan apartment, asking the impossible–come home to Edisto Island to care for the half-sisters and half-brother she has never known. Marney, recently widowed, has lung cancer. There’s no other family to care for the children while she’s in the hospital following surgery.
Julia loathes Marney. But if she doesn’t step in, her own mother–who has never gotten over the divorce–will be called upon to take care of the children. So Julia heads to South Carolina to keep the peace.
Julia grudgingly agrees to stay a week caring for her three young half-siblings. But there’s something about Edisto that changes one, and she begins to reconnect with the place and the people that she’s been running from her whole adult life.
Can Julia and her fractured family somehow manage to come together again under that low-hanging Edisto moon?
- Contemporary Southern Christian fiction
- Includes discussion questions for book clubs
- Also by Beth Webb Hart: The Wedding Machine and Love, Charleston
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