The Lobster Women
Loss, grief and moving on: three women in a fishing village in Maine
Holidays on the coast of Maine are among Mina’s most treasured childhood memories. Until that fateful summer, after which she and her parents never visited again. Many years later, after a terrible loss, Mina finds herself returning once more. She ends up in a lobster fishing village with 72-year-old Ann, who lives in a house on the water and approaches everything and everyone with the same harshness – except for her blue lobster, Mr Darcy, who she keeps in an aquarium in the living room. She takes Mina out to sea, where she and 54-year-old Julie teach her how to fish. Julie lost her memory in a serious accident and can now only truly be herself at sea. Meanwhile, Mina meets Sam. Sam, who never left her side during these summer holidays long ago, and whose family has never been the same since her last visit.
- A fateful summer twenty years ago, a childhood sweetheart and a family drama
- The rough-and-ready everyday lives of female lobster fishers provide the backdrop to this grand, inspirational novel
- For readers of Miranda Cowley Heller, Delia Owens and Shelley Read
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Beatrix Gerstberger, born in 1964, is a freelance author for various magazines. 20 years ago, when she lived in a lobster fishing village in Maine for six months, she wrote a bestselling book about the early death of her partner and the stories of other young widows. Many years later, she returned there, went out to sea with lobster fisherwomen, and spoke to them about life, loss, grief and moving on. The experience gave rise to the idea for this novel. Beatrix Gerstberger lives in Hamburg.
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