In the 1950s, as a teenager attending summer camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Gemma Sommerset, from Lynchburg, Virginia, is given a glimpse of her future self–a woman capable of accomplishing just about anything. But what are the odds? Isn’t life, after all, a game of chance?

A literary novel of a woman trying to find her own way in life. From Rootstock Publishing in Montpelier, VT.

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PRAISE FOR GEMMA SOMMERSET

“After finishing Jill McCroskey Coupe’s tender and riveting new novel, I was still seeing the world through its radiant lens. Reading Gemma Sommerset is like falling into a beguiling dream from which you don’t want to wake. Here is a heartfelt and redemptive novel of love and loss so exquisitely told that you want to stand up and cheer for Gemma and her family and for the author who writes with such intelligence, grace, and tenderness.”
—John Dufresne, author of My Darling Boy

“Gemma Sommerset is a charming, satisfying catharsis of a book; a story of love and loss and secrets. I love everything about this novel — its magical setting, where sky meets mountain, the vibrant prose and compelling characters, but most of all Gemma, my new favorite heroine, who encourages an unforgettable, powerful question: Who is it that we really want to become in our lives?”— Kim Bradley, Spillway 

“With concise and compact writing, Jill McCroskey Coupe depicts a Virginia woman who’s true to herself and to her daughters as she seeks what we all seek in life: fulfillment and a happy ending, A refreshing and satisfying read.” –Louella Bryant, Sheltering Angel

“In her third novel, as Jill McCroskey Coupe deftly takes us on Gemma Sommerset’s passages from childhood to old age, we realize that this is not just Gemma’s story but our own. This is a book you cannot put down. — Julie Fritz, Twinings, Poems at Eighty

“”As Dave King says, gentle books—of which this is one—are ‘driven by love.’ Stories driven by love are a much-needed balm these days. Gemma Sommerset reminds me about the importance of family and community.” – Author Barbara Morrison

“The work moves seamlessly to an inevitable ending that left this reader reflecting on the whole of Gemma’s life as well as on the skill of the author.” – Real South/West