Islands of Time

When Rebecca Granger falls in love with Ben Bunker she is only fourteen. In 1958 a summer girl is not allowed to love a year-round boy, son of a fisherman in Downeast Maine, and yet she does. When her father dies, loss and anger overpower her and she commits a sin, terrible at the time, that almost destroys her. She hides from her life in fantasies until she returns to Maine as an adult, and struggles to come to terms with the past. Islands of Time is a moving story of loss, pain, and growth, but also of unexpected forgiveness and love--celebrating the people and places of Downeast Maine.
Maine author William Carpenter notes that Islands of Time "provides an amazing insight into the longstanding cultural divisions of the Maine coast and the possibility of transcending them through human compassion and understanding." New York Times bestselling author and swordfishing captain Linda Greenlaw says of Islands of Time, "I really like it. The story about a girl from away falling in love with a year-round kid from Maine, then coming back as an adult to reclaim her self resonates with me. It's also a love song to the people and landscape of Maine." We think you will like it too.