Elizabeth de Veer, author of The Ocean in Winter, will do a reading and book-signing at Illume Books. The Ocean in Winter, set in Newburyport and Newbury, is about three sisters who lost their mother to suicide when they were children. Now they are adults - can they let go of the grief and move on? Author Holly Robinson called the book “...a page-turner of a book with a family mystery at its core, profoundly exploring the ways in which women struggle to rebuild their lives after grief and trauma.”