The Gilly Salt Sisters

Tiffany Baker

Mar 2012 · Sold by Grand Central Publishing

About this ebook

The author of the New York Times bestselling The Little Giant of Aberdeen County returns with a magic-tinged tale of dreams, family secrets, and betrayals on a New England salt farm.

In the isolated Cape Cod village of Prospect, the Gilly sisters are as different as can be. Jo, a fierce and quiet loner, is devoted to the mysteries of her family's salt farm, while Claire is popular, pretty, and yearns to flee the salt at any cost. But the Gilly land hides a dark legacy that proves impossible to escape. Although the community half-suspects the Gilly sisters might be witches, it doesn't stop Whit Turner, the town's wealthiest bachelor, from forcing his way into their lives. It's Jo who first steals Whit's heart, but it is Claire--heartbroken over her high school sweetheart--who marries him.

Years later, estranged from her family, Claire finds herself thrust back onto the farm with the last person she would have chosen: her husband's pregnant mistress. Suddenly, alliances change, old loves return, and new battle lines are drawn. What the Gilly sisters learn about each other, the land around them, and the power of the salt, will not only change each of their lives forever, it will also alter Gilly history for good.

Ratings and reviews

There are two Gilly sisters, Jo and Claire. Jo stays much to herself on the salt farm. She was strong, stern, hardworking and loyal to the family’s tradition of farming salt. Claire was outgoing, egotistic, attractive and popular; her desire was to leave the farm behind and she was willing to sacrifice anything to achieve her goal. The community was half frightened of the Gilly’s. Often they wondered if the family were witches. Whitt Turner pursues Jo and seems half in love with her but Jo will have none of it, so he turns to Claire. Claire sees the opportunity to escape the salt and grabs it. What she gains maybe worse than what she leaves. After a marital incident Claire finds herself back on the Gilly Salt Farm along with a young pregnant woman. Can the broken bond between the sisters be repaired? Can a young selfish pregnant woman see beyond the immediate to the future? It took me a couple of chapters to get into "The Gilly Sisters" but after that it held me captive to the end. The reader knows there are secrets but has to wait until Tiffany Baker decides to reveal them. It was delightful to watch as the sisters evolved from young children to mature adults. Tiffany Baker is an extremely talented author; she has characterization down to an art. She even developed the secondary characters. While Jo was my favorite, I grew to like Claire once I began to understand her. I would like to see Baker do a sequel to this book. I found it fascinating and I want more!

I loved the story very much and everthing but at the beginning it took me some time to actually get into it deeply for me to love it as I do now

About the author

Tiffany Baker is the author of The Gilly Salt Sisters and The Little Giant of Aberdeen County, which was a New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. She holds an MFA (creative writing) and a PhD (Victorian Literature) from UC Irvine, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and three children.