Bittersweet

My memory of the many afternoons I spent at Flat Rocks that summer is long and lingering, bound up with the reassuring sense of things always having been the way they were, and the belief that they would always be that way. ~Quote from Bittersweet Mabel Dagmar is invited by her wealthy college roommate, Ev Winslow, to spend the summer at Bittersweet cottage on her family compound in Vermont. Mabel finally feels wanted, valued, and loved, but after she discovers the ugly truths festering beneath the Winslow’s exquisite exterior, she’s forced to make choices that change her life forever. Bittersweet is an unsettling, riveting, and mysterious coming-of-age story, chock-full of strained friendships, first loves, family secrets, and scandalous discoveries. I was quickly sucked into the story and became as fascinated with Ev Winslow and her bizarre family as Mabel was. The author, Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, does a superb job of creating a palpable setting. The Bittersweet c