The Cliffs

Entrancing and filled with mystery, Reese Witherspoon's July Book Club pick tells the story of Jane Flanagan, whose life is in crisis due to a dreadful mistake she wishes she could undo. She flees to the seaside town in Maine where she grew up. Upon returning to the mysterious gothic house on the cliffs that was her refuge during childhood, she encounters a wealthy newcomer who is renovating the house beyond all recognition and agrees to delve into its haunting secrets.

A dilapidated lavender mansion, perched high on a craggy bluff in Maine, turns out to be more than a home; it's the key to a century of hopes, misdeeds, and family ghosts. This haunting and provocative ghost story questions how we right the wrongs of the past. Weaving together the stories of women in Maine over centuries, this novel explores maternal loss and trauma, the idea of home, and, most affecting, the stories that remain untold.

Riveting and steeped in historical context, this haunted house mystery is compulsively readable, funny, and heartbreaking.