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Title: Some Things Aren’t Meant to Be
Author: J. Peter Cobb
Publication Date: August 27, 2024
Trade Paper 6×9, List $18.99 ISBN: TBD
Contemporary Fiction
Advanced Reviews for Some Things Aren’t Meant To Be
“Some Things Aren’t Meant to Be is a lovely, bittersweet romance, grounded in sharply accurate depictions of a hardscrabble Vermont dairy farm and a rural Catholic diocese. It is well-written, believable, and compelling.”
–Tom Slayton, editor-in-chief of Vermont Life (1986-2007) and author of Searching for Thoreau: On the Trails and Shores of Wild New England and other books
Emotional honesty and a keen understanding of people and relationships are combined in this moving and deeply satisfying new novel by Peter Cobb. Beautifully written, Some Things Aren’t Meant to Be tells the story of John Gauthier…from his early days in 1929 working on a Vermont dairy farm and in love with the owner’s wife to his later life as a Catholic priest in the early 1960s. With themes of buried love and striving to do the right thing, the story skillfully spirals outward from the farm and back again.”
–Catherine Drake, author of The Treehouse on Dog River Road
Title: To Alice
Author: J. Peter Cobb
Publication Date: January 12, 2022
Trade Paper 6×9, 258p, List $15.99ISBN: 978-1-952816-95-6
Contemporary Fiction
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