Will learns that his sister is pregnant after the twenty-four hours he spends with Fern. Do you think their time together affected his decision to move back to Toronto and help his sister with the baby?
In her thirties, Fern is on hiatus from relationships because she doesn’t think they’re worth the effort. But she decides to give her relationship with Will a chance despite his actions and the secrets he’s kept. Would you have done the same?
Fern carries around a lot of guilt when it comes to her mother. What do you think of Maggie and Fern’s relationship? Do you think Fern’s decision to stay on at the resort is driven by guilt or something else?
Do you think Maggie and Peter’s love story is a sad or a happy one?
The fact that life doesn’t always work out as we plan is a theme of this book. Does your life look like you pictured it when you were younger?
A few books I read (and loved) while writing Meet Me at the Lake
A Hundred Other Girls by Iman Hariri-Kia Book Lovers by Emily Henry The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang Twice Shy by Sarah Hogle
Something Wilder by Christina Lauren Exes & O’s by Amy Lea The Road Trip by Beth O’Leary The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston The One That Got Away by Charlotte Rixon Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
Carley Fortune is the New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After. She’s also an award-winning Canadian journalist who has worked as an editor for Refinery29, The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, and Toronto Life. She lives in Toronto with her husband and two sons.