Sea Crow Press welcomes Kate Whouley. Her book, Cottage For Sale, Must Be Moved: A Woman Moves a House to Make a Home, the 20th Anniversary Edition of the beloved Cape Cod Classic, will be published in September 2024
The new edition of Cottage For Sale, Must Be Moved: A Woman Moves a House to Make a Home By Kate Whouley celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the quirky and beloved memoir that has become a Cape Cod classic. Including a new chapter by the author that catches readers up on the cottage, Kate, and the current Cat-in-Charge.
When Kate Whouley saw the classified ad for an abandoned cottage that had to be moved, she began to dream. Transport the cottage…attach it to my three-room house…create more space for my work and life….Smart, single, and self-employed, Whouley was used to fending for herself. But she wasn’t prepared for half the complications of her house-moving adventures. Supported by loyal friends, and egged on by her bossy gray cat, Whouley encountered a parade of town officials, a small convoy of State Police (who escorted her cottage, with lights flashing, through four Cape Cod towns), and an army of house-moving, home-building men. Like the cottage on wheels, Kate Whouley takes the back roads, with a keen eye for the inner scenery. For everyone who has ever dreamed of creating a space of their own, there is a cottage for sale. You only have to move it.
Review Highlights
“…a pitch-perfect description of both small-town life and personal anticipation…told in a voice of such good humor and thoughtful humanity… It is not simply about the marriage of a small house and smaller cottage, but about the hope we all find in home. I loved Cottage For Sale.”
—Anna Quindlen
“… a cast of characters that range from interesting to eccentric, a series of misadventures that might have come from a comic novel, and a narrative style that makes you keep turning the pages. It’s one of those books in which the author has taken something personal and made it universal.”
—Booklist
“Whouley’s gentle memoir…deftly explores the themes of independence, pride of place and loss…”
— The New York Times
“…an almost Holy Grail quest… highly entertaining.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“100% original and 100% enjoyable."
—Book-of-the Month-Club News
About Kate Whouley
Kate Whouley is a contributing writer for Yankee magazine and the 2012 recipient of the New England Book Award in nonfiction for Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words. Her novel, The Maestro and Her Protégé will be published in fall of 2025. A longtime designer of independent bookstores, she is a founding faculty member in the Bay Path University MFA program and serves as the editor of Multiplicity magazine. Kate lives and writes on Cape Cod in a cottage that is no longer on the move.
