Captures the richness and complication of female friendships in a way few writers have done. . . incredibly rich characterizations and a profound sense of place. CosmopolitanIn her magnificent classic Outer Banks, acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons brilliantly recalls a lost time of hope and dreamsof comradeship, love, secrets, and betrayaland creates characters brimming with life who will live in the heart forever.In the uncertain 60s, four young women came together as sorority sisters on a Southern campus: elegant Kate; sensitive, sensible Cecie; sexy, vibrant and richer-than-sin Ginger; and poor, hopeless, brilliant Fig. At Nags Head, North Carolina, over the course of two idyllic spring breaks, their bonds of friendship were strengthened into something rare and powerfully binding. Now, thirty years later, they are returning to the isolated strip of barrier islands, hoping to recapture what has been lostthe love, the enthusiasm, the passionand to finally understand what pulled them apart and cast them adrift.