Cheer Up, Mr. Widdicombe

Named one of 2019’s most anticipated reads by Entertainment Weekly , “a hilarious and witty joy of a novel about a family’s insanely dramatic summer at their new island home” ( Cosmopolitan ) in the Pacific Northwest. The inimitable—some might say incorrigible—Frank Widdicombe is suffering from a deep depression. Or so his wife, Carol, believes. But Carol is convinced that their new island home—Willowbrook Manor on the Puget Sound—is just the thing to cheer him up. And so begins a whirlwind summ