Imbued with all the lyricism, compassion, and suspense of her bestselling novel The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, Kim Edward’s The Lake of Dreams is a powerful family drama and an unforgettable story of love lost and found.
Lucy Jarrett is at a crossroads in her life, still haunted by her father’s unresolved death a decade earlier. She returns to her hometown, The Lake of Dreams, and, late one night, she cracks the lock of a window seat and discovers a collection of objects. They appear to be idle curiosities, but soon Lucy realizes that she has stumbled across a dark secret from her family’s past, one that will radically change her-and the future of her family-forever.
Excerpt from Author Interview, Link Below:
Q: I was amazed at all the things I hadn’t known about the area that I learned from reading the book. The Seneca Falls white deer, the history of the suffragette movement in the area. … What was it like, doing research into your own hometown?
A: That was really one of the fun things about the book. I grew up in that area, but haven’t lived there for decades. I still have a deep affection for that landscape. When I started to research this book, there was the pleasure of setting it there, but there was also the discovery of things I hadn’t understood about those places until I started delving into histories of the area.
The white deer — I’ve been intrigued by them and they’ve been appearing in my work for a long time. But there were a lot of details that I discovered about the suffragette movement and the history of glass making, for instance, while I was researching the book.
I went back to Seneca Falls — I grew up a stone’s throw from there — and visited the National Women‘s History Park, a site funded by the federal government, which didn’t exist when I was growing up. When I was reading biographies about that time, or reading histories, I was reading about places that were so familiar to me and sometimes about streets that I knew and had walked on. I was having a wonderful time seeing this place that I thought I had known, and in some ways did know, through this new vision.