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Chapters 1-10

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Blake, Sarah. The Guest Book. Flatiron Books, 2019. Hardcover.

• At the beginning of the novel, three men in a boat sail by the Milton home on Crockett Island.

• The home is in ruins.

• It is rumored that someone drowned there.

• They discuss how the home used to belong to WASPS, the banking family Milton Higginson.

• One of them is considering buying the place.

• The first section of the book is titled “The Anchoress.”

• Chapter 1 takes place in 1935.

• Kitty Milton, who was 30, was headed to the Philharmonic to meet her mother.

• Her husband, Ogden, was in Berlin on business.

• Her children--Neddy age five, Moss age three, and Joan age one--were with their nurse at the park.

• The nurse was exasperated with Neddy and his behavior.

• She told him that she was making a list of...

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