in 1940s Provincetown, on the tip of Cape Cod, poet Toby Maytree falls in love with Lou Bigelow at first sight. His slow courtship gradually wins her over, and so begins a love story that lasts decades. Surrounded by bohemian friends, living in Toby's shack on the dunes, the two marry, have a child. But when a friend first comes between them, then unexpectedly propels them back into one another's lives, they must each renegotiate what it means to love.

This profound and meditative reflection on the nature of love is Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Dillard's second novel, and is written with all her characteristic verve and grace.

'a shimmering meditation on the ebb and flow of love... the last line of The Maytrees is so lovely that it may send you right back to the book's beginning' New York Times

'full of the kind of pleasures one looks for in fiction' Marilynne Robinson, Washington Post
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