SKYLAND Book Launch
Fri, May 08
|Water Street Bookstore
Ann Joslin Williams will read from her new novel, SKYLAND


Time & Location
May 08, 2026, 7:00 PM
Water Street Bookstore, 125 Water St, Exeter, NH 03833, USA
About the book
"An achingly lovely novel about what happens when an act of violence tears apart a family. Skyland shows us that we may be able to find our way back from the unthinkable—slowly and painfully, to be sure, but not without moments of beauty." —Ann Packer, author of Some Bright Nowhere
A deeply moving novel that illuminates the complex ways we survive the unthinkable and slowly, painfully, learn to live again.
When Celia is murdered by a troubled young man from across the street, her husband Henry and daughters Nora and Lucy are left to navigate the unthinkable in their small town of Kittery, Maine. Desperate to help his daughters heal, Henry sends the girls to spend the summer at Skyland Farm, a remote artists' retreat in the New Hampshire mountains run by his beloved cousin Franny.
But the girls, feeling abandoned, struggle to find their footing among the resident artists.…
