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Chapters (51)
  1. Cover
  2. Praise for
  3. ALSO BY PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Prologue
  7. Chapter One
  8. Chapter Two
  9. Chapter Three
  10. Chapter Four
  11. Chapter Five
  12. Chapter Six
  13. Chapter Seven
  14. Chapter Eight
  15. Chapter Nine
  16. Chapter Ten
  17. Chapter Eleven
  18. THE MEMORY BOOK
  19. Chapter Twelve
  20. Chapter Thirteen
  21. THE MEMORY BOOK
  22. Chapter Fourteen
  23. Chapter Fifteen
  24. Chapter Sixteen
  25. Chapter Seventeen
  26. Chapter Eighteen
  27. THE MEMORY BOOK
  28. Chapter Nineteen
  29. Chapter Twenty
  30. Chapter Twenty-one
  31. THE MEMORY BOOK
  32. Chapter Twenty-two
  33. Chapter Twenty-three
  34. Chapter Twenty-four
  35. Chapter Twenty-five
  36. THE MEMORY BOOK
  37. Chapter Twenty-six
  38. Chapter Twenty-seven
  39. Chapter Twenty-eight
  40. Chapter Twenty-nine
  41. Chapter Thirty
  42. Chapter Thirty-one
  43. Chapter Thirty-two
  44. Chapter Thirty-three
  45. Chapter Thirty-four
  46. Chapter Thirty-five
  47. Epilogue
  48. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  49. Readers Guide
  50. About the Author
  51. What’s next onyour reading list?

“A powerful exploration of the resilience of two women. . . . A perfect read for fans of Mary Alice Monroe and lovers of Southern women’s fiction, The Bookshop at Water’s End is full of genuine interactions between characters and unexpected turns of events that will leave readers meditating on the unpredictable paths life takes.”

—Panama City News Herald

“Patti Callahan Henry’s best novel ever. . . . [This] is a story of redemption, and every reader can relate to that experience in one way or another.”

—The Huffington Post

Praise for

Becoming Mrs. Lewis

(writing as Patti Callahan)

“A deeply moving story about love and loss that is transformative and magical.”

—Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan’s Tale

“Patti Callahan’s prose reads like poetry. . . . A literary treasure from first page to last.”

—Lisa Wingate, New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours

“Beautifully written. Deeply romantic. Fiercely intelligent. . . . Touching, tender and triumphant, this is a love story for the ages.”

—Ariel Lawhon, author of I Was Anastasia

“Luminous and penetrating.”

—Paula McLain, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife

ALSO BY PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY

Losing the Moon

Where the River Runs

When Light Breaks

Between the Tides

The Art of Keeping Secrets

Driftwood Summer

The Perfect Love Song

Coming Up for Air

And Then I Found You

Friend Request

The Stories We Tell

The Idea of Love

The Bookshop at Water’s End

Dedication

To all those affected by the memory-stealing disease of Alzheimer’s—may we find a cure.

Epigraph

Your feet will bring you where your heart is.

Irish proverb

Prologue

Prologue

Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that.

Virginia Woolf, Orlando

The wedding for Colleen Donohue, Lena to her family and friends, and Walter Littleton was ready to begin one spring afternoon. The Lowcountry of South Carolina preened, the temperature in the seventies without a hint of the summer humidity that would arrive soon, the river shimmering with glints of sunlight captured in its crests, the blooms of the azaleas and gardenias competing for attention. The air was soft as cashmere.

For this very day much dreaming and planning had gone on behind the scenes, starting with the gown. Lena’s cream-colored lace dress, originally worn by Aunt Rosalind forty years before, had been remade for Lena’s taller body. Her ethereal and younger sister, Hallie, as the maid of honor, was adorned in a pale pink sheath dress with a circle of baby gardenias on her head, her straight blond hair falling to her shoulders. Lena’s loose curls had been tamed for the day and pinned high under a pearl crown and a veil edged with tiny Swarovski crystals.