On the Bookshelf

by Jeannette Walls

Owl Island Randy Sue Coburn Ballantine Hardcover 368 pages June 2006

“In Owl Island,  a quiet domestic tale of lost love and secrets better left unsaid, author Randy Sue Coburn demonstrates that you can never escape your past, even if you might want to. Forty-something Phoebe Allen has spent most of her life growing up on the bucolic and picturesque hamlet of Owl Island, about seventy miles north of Seattle.”