by Ann Tatlock
AUTHOR’S NOTE
Sometime back in the 1920s my grandfather Harry Tatlock bought a cottage on Conesus Lake in upstate New York, not far from the family home in Rochester. I have photos of my mother as a very young girl there. My favorite is the one in which she’s about four years old and she’s standing on the dock with the lake behind her. She looks adorable in a cotton print dress, her smiling face framed by a floppy sunbonnet. Decades later she would return to the cottage for summer vacations with her husband and their three daughters. I am, of course, one of those girls, and my memories of that lakeside cottage are among the best of my childhood.
The setting re-created here is based largely on those longago impressions of Conesus Lake, mixed with more than a little poetic license. But that’s a writer’s prerogative, I think, and I hope those readers presently acquainted with the lake will be patient with my flights of fancy.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ann Tatlock is the author of the Christy Award–winning novel All the Way Home. She has also won the Midwest Independent Publishers Association “Book of the Year” award in fiction for both All the Way Home and I’ll Watch the Moon. Ann lives with her husband, Bob, and their daughter, Laura, in Asheville, North Carolina.
Visit Ann’s Web site: www.anntatlock.com
BOOKS BY ANN TATLOCK
Every Secret Thing
The Returning
Promises to Keep
Travelers Rest
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