The walls of monotony are ripped down and the autumnal deserted town becomes their very own. Time seems to completely suspend and socialite Clara, through the medium of her spectacular parties, offers the newlyweds a different view of Cape May.
On the verge of returning home early, the door to the fantasy land of Cape May opens and Effie and Henry meet Clara, her lover Max and his half-sister Alma. With their days spent cautiously navigating their new sexual experiences and settling into culinary domesticity, a sharp contrast between the icecream stands at the seaside and the gloomy pockets of memory in the house highlight the sensation created by Chip Cheek that Henry and Ellie are playing house, never truly comfortable with their new marriage. We can never return to those exact moments, tendrils of temporary mist. The resort in summer had been a shaping influence in Effie’s early years but as a married woman, she is hurt by the change in atmosphere in Cape May perhaps it is the inevitable change that comes when we try to revist anywhere from childhood, it is more than the landscape which changes but the very essence of us. Newlyweds Henry and Effie, young and tender, holiday in Cape May, New Jersey for their honeymoon.
The reader is treated to a nostalgia-soaked setting adorned with ice-creams and boardwalks, wide brimmed sunhats and sunglasses. With a flawless marriage of setting and character development, Cape May oozes glamour and sophistication with echoes of The Great Gatsby.
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