02011cam a2200265 4500 66404400 TxAuBib 20090806120000.0 090806s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780553805147 0553805142 (OCoLC)317824617 TxAuBib Rice, Luanne. The Deep Blue Sea For Beginners. New York : Bantam Books, 2009. 302. Newport, Rhode Island ; 2 Years ago, Lyra Davis left behind a world of wealth and privilege and the people she loved most in the world, unable to reconcile the expectations of her celebrated family with the longings of her own wild heart. Now she lives quietly among a community of expatriates on the isle of Capri, slowly, carefully learning to live fully for the first time, flourishing in the friendship of a singular man who recognizes in her a kindred spirit. Granddaughter of the reigning doyenne of Newport, Rhode Island, wise beyond her sixteen years, Pell Davis is poised to take her place at the pinnacle of society. Yet she and her young sister still long for the mother who ran away from them when they were children so that they could be raised by the father they adored. Pell knows that Lyra felt she loved them best by leaving. But with her father now dead and her sister veering dangerously into fantasy, she will travel across an ocean to find the mother she remembers and the deeper truths they all need so desperately.. Lyrical, unforgettable, Luanne Rice's new novel unfolds against a background of timeless beauty, as an unlikely love affair reshapes the meaning of devotion and three generations of women resist the pull of memory and tradition to find a new way forward. 20090806. Mothers and Daughters Juvenile Fiction. Psychological fiction. Newport, Rhode Island ; 2. TXPLE