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Coastliners

Madeleine, or "Mado," comes home after ten years to the island of Le Devin and an unwelcoming father whose emotional pain is so deep that he barely speaks. At first, the villagers of Les Salants resist Mado's interference, but she is determined to save her childhood home from its own hopelessness. With the help of a mysterious visitor named Flynn, Mado succeeds in bringing back the beach and tourism industry to Les Salants, only to have it all threatened by greed and deception.

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  • "Madeleine, or "Mado," comes home after ten years to the island of Le Devin and an unwelcoming father whose emotional pain is so deep that he barely speaks. At first, the villagers of Les Salants resist Mado's interference, but she is determined to save her childhood home from its own hopelessness. With the help of a mysterious visitor named Flynn, Mado succeeds in bringing back the beach and tourism industry to Les Salants, only to have it all threatened by greed and deception."@en
  • "The island of Le Devin is shaped somewhat like a sleeping woman. At her head is the village of Les Salants, while the more prosperous village of La Houssinière lies at her feet. You could walk from one to the other in an hour, but they could not be farther apart, for between them lie years of animosity. The villagers of Les Salants say that if you kiss the feet of their patron saint and spit three times, something you've lost will come back to you. And so Madeleine, who grew up on the island, returns after an absence of ten years spent in Paris. She is haunted by this place and has never been able to feel at home anywhere else. But when she arrives, she finds her father - who once built the fishing boats that fueled the village's livelihood - has become more silent than ever, withdrawing almost completely. His decline seems reflected in the village itself, for when the only beach in Les Salants washed away, all of the tourists drifted to La Hodssinière."@en
  • "From the bestselling author of 'Chocolat', this is a novel about a hardy island community fighting the encroaching seas. A young woman returns to her home island off the Atlantic coast and tries to stop the decline of her father's fishing village."@en
  • "As a woman returns to the place of her youth, she finds herself united with other villagers in a struggle for the survival of the town and ultimately their own salvation."
  • "This is a novel about a hardy island community fighting the encroaching seas. A young woman returns to her home island off the Atlantic coast and tries to stop the decline of her father's fishing village. But her head is turned by the attractive, free-spirited Flynn. 2002."@en
  • "Madeleine who grew up in the village of Les Salants, returns after ten years in Paris to find the place declining, with the only beach there washed away and all of the tourists drifted to La Houssiniere. Madeleine soon finds herself united with the village's other lost souls in a struggle for survival and salvation."
  • "This is a novel about a hardy island community fighting the encroaching seas. A young woman returns to her home island off the Atlantic coast and tries to stop the decline of her father's fishing village. But her head is turned by the attractive, free-spirited Flynn."@en
  • "Returning to her hometown on a tiny French island called Le Devin, Madeleine is saddened to realize that the island's decline reflects the deterioration of her increasingly withdrawn father, and she seeks to unite the town's other lost souls to save their home."@en
  • "Madeleine returns to the tiny island of Le Devin, a place where the salt of the sea is always on one's lips, the breeze never stops blowing, and nothing has changed for a hundred years. She has been haunted by this place, this island lost in time, but now she finds many things have changed. Although Madeleine's own life has been adrift for a very long time, she soon finds herself uniting with the village's other lost souls in a struggle for survival and salvation."@en

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  • "Love stories"
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
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  • "Coastliners"@en
  • "Coastliners"
  • "Coastliners a novel"@en
  • "Coastliners a novel"
  • "Coastliners [a novel]"@en

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