With her signature warmth and Southern charm ( E! Online ), the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer of Songbirds and the Peachtree Bluff series presents a tender and touching novel about a young woman who discovers the family she has always longed for when she spends a life-changing summer in North Carolina.
For fans of Summer of \'69 and The Notebook , A Happier Life explores the power of family, the bonds of friendship, and the boundless nature of love..
As both Keaton and Becks face new challenges and chapters, they are connected through time by the house on Sunset Lane, which has protected the secrets, hopes, and dreams of the women in their family for generations.
And as the end of the season looms, she is brought to a decision she never wanted to make.
Becks strives to make the lives of those around her as easy as possible, but this summer she is facing a dilemma that even she can\'t solve.
But she\'s struggling behind the façade.
Her annual summer suppers have become the stuff of legend, and locals and out-of-towners alike clamor for an invitation to her stunning historic home.
Forty years later, she\'s made a name for herself as the best hostess North Carolina has ever seen. 1976: After meeting her adoring husband Townsend, Rebecca Becks Saint James abandoned the Life she knew and never looked back.
And as she gets to know her charming next-door-neighbor, his precocious ten-year-old son, and a flock of endearingly feisty town busybodies, she soon finds she has more questions than answers.
But the moment she steps foot inside the abandoned house, she\'s confronted with secrets about the grandparents who died in a car accident before she was born.
So when her mother needs someone to put her childhood home in Beaufort, North Carolina, on the market--the home that Keaton didn\'t know existed until now--she jumps at the chance to head south.
Present Day: Keaton Smith is desperate for a fresh start.
With her signature warmth and Southern charm ( E! Online ), the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer of Songbirds and the Peachtree Bluff series presents a tender and touching novel about a young woman who discovers the family she has always longed for when she spends a life-changing summer in North Carolina
