The Summer That Made Us

from LivelyLady

Rambling story of women from the same family gathered together for the summer, to heal old wounds, and to restablish and clarify the family history. It had some surprises in it. But it did ramble on and on.

from kbranfield

The Summer That Made Us by Robyn Carr is a multi-layered novel about a once close-knit family that was torn apart by tragedy. Once upon a time, sisters Louise and Josephine, along with their daughters, spent idyllic summers together at the family's lake house. They each had three daughters and ...

from scoutmomskf

Good story of family relationships, love, forgiveness, and letting go. Two sisters, Louise and Jo, married two brothers, Carl and Roy. Each couple had three daughters. The families were very close and spent each summer at their lake house. Then the youngest daughter, Bunny, drowned, and in the af...

from debkrenzer

I absolutely loved this book. A story of two sisters that married two brothers and each had three kids all of which were girls. The families would spend every summer at the lake house their grandmother and grandfather owned until the weekend that one of the youngest girls died in a boating accide...

from mchwest

This was a different write for Robyn Carr I think, not everything always has a happy ending, but this book was so good I'm sad that I'm done. I loved reading about lake life in the summer, summers past for a family that would leave it all behind when not great things happen. But to figure out you...