Famous in a Small Town

About the book

For the majority of her eighty years, Mary Jackson has endured the constant influx of tourists, influencers, and real estate developers who have discovered the charming lakeside town of Good Hart, Michigan. She has been waiting patiently for the arrival of a stranger whom she has believed since childhood would carry on her legacy - the Very Cherry General Store. Known locally as Cherry Mary, she, like the generations of Jackson women before her, runs the community hub which serves as a post office, bakery, and sandwich shop. She had almost given up hope that the mysterious prediction she had been told as a girl would come true and that the store would have to be passed on to… a man.

Becky Thatcher arrived in Good Hart with her best friend to escape the fact that she has just turned forty with nothing significant to show for it. Finding herself at the general store with Mary was not exactly the beach vacation she had envisioned, but as the spirited octogenarian talks about destiny, memories of Becky's own childhood holidays start flooding back, along with the strange visions she was never quite certain were real. As she spends the summer working under Mary’s guidance and fits in with the quirky locals, Becky begins to believe that destiny could indeed be real, and that it might have something extraordinary in store for her…

Filled with unforgettable characters and tales of small-town life, the delightful new novel from the acclaimed author of The Clover Girls is a magical tale about the family we are born into, and the family we choose.