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The Lobster Years (vol. II)

Can love survive every wound?

Returning to Eagle Island brings three generations face to face with the past. While Richard longs for one last summer on the Maine coast, his daughter Mina must confront a love she never truly left behind. Julie refuses to let grief define the rest of her life, and Judith can no longer outrun the memories of a tragedy that changed her family forever.

Rich in emotion and psychological insight, this is a novel about the choices that shape us, the secrets we carry and the healing power of facing the past.


  • Sequel to the successful 2025 debut novel ‘The Lobster Women’: #1 SPIEGEL bestseller, 21 weeks in the top 20
  • »You can feel that Beatrix Gerstberger lived what she writes about. An entertaining, powerful novel« – Brigitte
  • For readers of Claire Lombardo and Maggie O’Farrell
Genre: Fiction, Contemporary Fiction

Beatrix Gerstberger

Beatrix Gerstberger, born in 1964, is a freelance author for various magazines. Since first publishing her memoir about the untimely death of her partner, she has written further novels and become an internationally acclaimed author.


352 pages, ISBN: 978-3-423-28595-7
First published 2026