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At the seaside resort of Blackpool, England, the Singleton family enjoys all the amenities of the Belvedere Hotel ("Hot and Cold Water in Every Room"). But in this fading realm of boardwalk, beach, and tourist traps, Ruth Singleton can't escape her lust for a bigger home and her need to make her youngest daughter's illness disappear. Her husband, Jack, hides a letter that stretches back to the horrors of the war and into his unbearable loneliness. Daughters Helen and Beth, sixteen and seven, will wade into a tide of longing and delusion: Helen falls under the spell of a wanton waitress; Beth fights a disease that has threatened her life and now her spirit. Full of secrets, passions, and fateful choices that will transform this family and their friends, the world of the Singletons will tilt precariously from a violent past toward a future bearing dangers and wonders of its own....