The Bookshop at Water's EndBy: Patti Callahan Henry The women who spent their childhood summers in a small southern town discover it harbors secrets as lush as the marshes that surround it Bonny Blankenships most treasured memories are of idyllic summers spent in Watersend, South Carolina, with her best friend, Lainey McKay. Amid the sand dunes and oak trees draped with Spanish moss, they swam and wished for happy ever afters, then escaped to the local bookshop to read and