
Over the course of a week or two in this North Shore town, they hike, sail, swim, and play tennis-activities the Jewish, Italian, and Irish immigrant girls have never experienced before.ĭiamant, a Rockport resident and author of the New York Times bestseller The Red Tent, has set part of her new novel at Rockport Lodge, a 1750s farmhouse on Route 127 that’s now a private home.

In the novel that author Anita Diamant is currently writing, a group of young women in 1915 journey from Boston to Rockport by train to escape their office and department store jobs and the pressures of urban life.
