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★★☆☆☆
Well Written and Absorbing. But.....
This is a sweeping multi-generational saga with the Milton Family at the center. Upper crust WASPs that own an investment firm. In 1936, Ogden & Kitty Milton purchase Crocketts Island. An idyllic and lovely island off the coast of Maine where they spend summers. There are several tragedies in this tale. Well written. However, the tone of this novel is extraordinarily preachy. I don't read fiction to be lectured. This author seems to have fallen into that trap.
