By the Shore

In this “breathtaking” debut novel, an English girl comes of age as she pines for a better life: “note-perfect from beginning to end” ( San Francisco Chronicle ).   Galaxy Craze’s national bestselling debut novel “captures perfectly the hopes and hurts of childhood.” The twelve-year-old protagonist, May, lives in a struggling oceanfront bed-and-breakfast run by her loving yet distracted single mother, Lucy, who strives to care for her children without forfeiting her own desires for fun and