Kate Whouley
​Kate Whouley is a contributing editor at Yankee magazine and the 2012 recipient of the New England Book Award in nonfiction for Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words. A longtime designer of independent bookstores, Kate currently directs the MFA program in creative writing at Bay Path University, and serves as the editor of Multiplicity, the literary magazine of the Bay Path MFA. Kate lives and writes on Cape Cod in a cottage that is no longer on the move.
By Kate Whouley
Cape Cod | Memoir | Traveler & Explorer Biographies | Home Improvement & Design Books
Cottage For Sale, Must Be Moved
A Woman Moves a House to Make A Home
By Kate Whouley
paperback | 5.25 X 8.5 | 300 pages | June, 4, 2024
The Award-Winning
Summer Beach Read 2024!
This new edition of Cottage celebrates its twentieth publication anniversary. With an all-new bonus chapter!
After a classified ad for an abandoned vacation cottage captures Kate Whouley’s imagination, she
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becomes determined to attach the tiny building to her three-room house. Town politics and construction mishaps test her resolve, but Kate and her bossy gray cat exercise willful persistence in their single-minded pursuit of a place called home. Sometimes hilarious, often moving, this story of Kate’s year-long adventure is also a meditation on friendship, family, commitment, creativity, and the possibility of making our dreams come true. The memoir Anna Quindlen called “a pitch-perfect description of both small-town life and personal anticipation” is now available in a 20th-anniversary edition, complete with a brand-new bonus chapter by the author that catches readers up on the cottage, Kate, and the current (just as bossy) Cat-in-Charge.
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