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Bittersweet, a novel, Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

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Bittersweet, a novel, Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Bittersweet

Oclc number

856977257

Responsibility statement

Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Winning a scholarship to a prestigious college where she befriends a beautiful girl of privilege, unassuming Mabel joins her friend during a lakeside summer surrounded by wealthy vacationers only to discover morally ambiguous truths about her friend's family fortuneOn scholarship at a prestigious East Coast college, Mabel Dagmar is befriended by her roommate, the blue-blooded Genevra Winslow. Invited to spend the summer at Bittersweet, a cottage on a Vermont estate, Mabel falls in love with the moneyed laughter that carries across the still lake while fireworks burst overhead. Soon she has everything she's ever wanted: friendship, a boyfriend, access to wealth, and the sense that she belongs. When a discovery leads to violence and reveals how the Winslows keep their power intact, Mabel must either expose them and face expulsion from paradise, or keep the family's dark secrets and make this world her own

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