The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
Title: The Mermaid Chair
Genre: Popular Fiction Author: Sue Monk Kidd
Edition: Published Headline Book 2005 - Hardcover – Good Secondhand Condition (couple of library stamps).
Forty two and married for half her life, Jessie Sullivan lives quite convetionally, “moulded to the smallest space possible”. She honestly believes that she is happy. She has a lovely home, a good, dependable husband and an accomplished teenage daughter. But when she returns to the remote island of her childhood, to establish the cause of her mother’s increasingly strange behaviour, Jessie is drawn to Brother Thomas, a Benedictine monk on the verge of taking his final vows. Amid the seductive beauty of South Carolina salt marshes and tidal creeks, their encounters awaken an immense sexual and spiritual desire in Jessie.
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