![]() ![]() Theresa Osborne, divorced and the mother of a twelve-year-old son, picks it up during a seaside vacation from her job as a Boston newspaper columnist. Instead, it is found just three weeks after it begins its journey. Thrown to the waves, and to fate, the bottle could have ended up anywhere. In a moment of desolation on a windswept beach, Garrett bottles his words of undying love for a lost woman, and throws them to the sea.īut the bottle is picked up by Theresa, a mother with a shattered past, who feels unaccountably drawn to this lonely man.īeginning a search that will take her to a sunlit coastal town and an unexpected confrontation, it is a tale that resonates with everlasting love and the enduring promise of redemption.īook Review: Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks Setting Place: Wilmington, North Carolina (United States)īook Summary: Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks Major Characters: Theresa Osborne, Garrett Blake, Catherine, Deanna, Kevin Osborne ![]()
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