"A first-rate storyteller who creates believable, sympathetic characters who seem as familiar as your neighbors."
—The Boston Globe
"A first-rate storyteller who creates believable, sympathetic characters who seem as familiar as your neighbors."
—The Boston Globe
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In A Week at the Shore, New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky explores how lives and relationships are forever changed when three sisters reunite at their family Rhode Island beach house.
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Barbara's Galleries
Photography is the root that grew me into a writer. Eighty books later, and I still love taking pictures. It's my joy to share these now, too. I offer you three galleries. One contains landscapes, mostly New England scenes. One contains close-ups, taken both indoors and out. The final one is personal – me, my family, our pets. Please explore!
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About Barbara
Personal bios are really hard to write for those of us who make a living dramatizing bios for pretend people. Anything I write about me feels totally boring. But it is what it is. So here goes.
I was born and raised in suburban Boston. My mother’s death, when I was eight, was the defining event of a childhood that was otherwise ordinary.
What Barbara's Reading
Is this book a novel? A novella? A memoir? Autobiographical fiction? Whatever, I bought it because I admire the author’s writing, and I wasn’t let down. What we have in Whereabouts is forty-six – yep, 46 – vignettes about the life of a middle-aged woman in the course of a year. Each vignette has a…
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