"Looking back on her ninety years of life while waiting for the arrival of her children and grandchildren at the family summer home, Maude Chambliss recalls a life of wealth, friendship, love, and loss."@en
"An unforgettable story of love, acceptance, and tradition."
"Maude Chambliss is a young, wild Southern bride -- and a complete outsider on the coast of Maine, where her husband's aristocratic Yankee family summers. But after many years, Maude comes to love the colony, and it is here that she will ultimately find herself⁵and her destiny."@en
"An older woman must pass on the legacy of a summer colony in Maine to her granddaughter in order to save it."
"Ninety-year-old Maude Chambliss reflects on the summers she has spent at an exclusive summer colony since coming there for the first time as a young bride."
"Een jonge bruid arriveert in het snobistische bungalowpark in de staat Maine, waar de familie van haar man al twee generaties lang de zomermaanden doorbrengt."
"Colony, a rich multigenerational novel set in Maine, showcases Siddons' talent for storytelling. Maude arrived at "Retreat" that first summer a 19-year-old bride whose Southern origins and gypsy-like beauty mark her as an outsider. Years later, now a confident matriarch, she attempts to preserve the elite colony's future."