There were moments in Sandwich when I thought that the author, Catherine Newman, had direct access to my mind because the experiences of the main character, a woman named Rocky, were so similar to my own.

Rocky spends every summer in a shack at Sandwich, Cape Cod. I have spent every summer in a shack at McCrae, on the Mornington Peninsula.

We’ve been coming here so long that the experience is deeply layered… Continue reading →