Book review: Return to Sullivans Island

Just finished my latest book. Return to Sullivan's Island by Dorothea Benton Frank. Actually started it towards the end of the summer by the pool, but that pesky school had to start back, and suck up all my time. I have been committed to donating some of my time to reading again because I love it so much. I stayed awake way past my bedtime (11:00- pretty impressive for me) but it was worth it. I have read all of her books and this is her most recent one. Loved it as much as her others. Here's a summary of the book from Amazon. I'd write one myself but I'm sleepy from staying up too late last night and a jam packed schedule of parent conferences last night :

"Frank (Sullivan's Island) creates a world in which aspiring writer Beth Hayes, whose chirpy internal monologues and quiet uncertainties make her easily endearing, is as much a character as the house she lives in. After graduating from college in Boston, Beth returns to the South to spend a year house-sitting her family's home, Island Gamble, while her mother, Susan, visits Paris. Frank's portrayal of a large and complicated family is humorous and precise: there's Susan, adoring and kind; Aunt Maggie, a stickler for manners; twin aunts Sophie and Allison, who run an exercise-and-vitamin empire; and uncles Timmy and Henry, the latter of whom has ties to Beth's trust fund. Frank's lovable characters occasionally stymie her pace; there's almost no room left for Beth's friends or her love affairs with sleazy Max Mitchell and cherubic Woody Morrison, though these become important later on. Frank is frequently funny, and she weaves in a dark undercurrent that incites some surprising late-book developments. Tight storytelling, winsomely oddball characters and touches of Southern magic make this a winner."