He learns of a hidden family fortune from the housekeeper. Jamie begins working for the wealthy Hawkes family doing odd jobs. This is where the story became awfully familiar… Eventually such misadventures, including a disastrous gun running scheme, land the two in the sleepy seaside town of Hawkes Harbor. McDevitt, we slowly learn about the intervening years-never certain how much of it is true-about Jamie and his friend and mentor Kellen Quinn’s sea faring adventures. In the next chapter, seventeen years later, Jamie is transferred to Terrace View Asylum having lost his mind. In the prologue, eight year-old Jamie is brought to an orphanage where the sisters look down on him as a product of sin who will not amount to much. Best known for gritty teen novels, like The Outsiders and Rumble Fish, Hinton spins an altogether different tale and an adult one. Hinton released Hawkes Harbor, her first novel in 15 years. Jamie Sommers suffers from depression, partial amnesia, and an unaccountable fear…” Phillip McDevitt “is intrigued by his newest patient, a troubled young man recently transferred from the state hospital for the criminally insane.
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