{"product_id":"9780060539061","title":"Leeway Cottage","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this beautifully written tour de force of a novel, Beth Gutcheon takes readers back to the coastal village of Dundee, Maine.  There, in a Victorian summer house called Leeway Cottage, we witness the scenes of a long 20th century marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIn April of 1940, a rich girl of the Dundee summer colony named Sydney Brant marries a gifted Danish pianist, Laurus Moss.  But almost at once, their vows of the world and their marriage begin to diverge.  When Laurus chooses to leave Sydney in the falloff 1941 to help build a Danish Resistance from London, Sydney is dismayed.  By the time they are reunited four years later, Laurus's family and the reader have been through one of the most stirring stories of the war, Denmark's courageous grass-roots rescue of virtually all 7000 of the country's Jews.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIn the decades to come, many people, especially their three grown children, will wonder how these two very different people understand each other at all.  If they do, how do they stay together? Laurus likes to claim that in heaven you get to see the movie of your life, with all the blanks filled in.  In their old age Sydney fears what he might see and why he wants to know; their children fear he'll die and there won't be any movie.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBut there will be.\u003c\/p\u003e  ","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007750324464,"sku":"9780060539061","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780060539061_p0.jpg?v=1763618998","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780060539061","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}