Showing results for "the bench" in Women's Fiction

In 1972 on Mudas Summers's 17th birthday, her beloved mama Ella is found hanging from the rafters of their home. Most people in Peckinpaw, Kentucky, assume that Ella's no-good husband did the deed. Others think Ella grew tired of his abuse and did it herself. Muddy is determined to find out for sure either way, especially once she finds strange papers hidden among her mama's possessions

When Claire returns to her hometown after her mother's death, she finds herself drawn back to the maple tree bench where they spent their last moments together. Grief has hollowed her out, leaving her unsure of how to move forward—or if she even wants to.

An engaging and intelligent woman seeking to end her unsatisfying marriage to a US congressman, an acclaimed sports writer facing a major professional crisis, and an effervescent and quick-witted major-league ball-player's wife dealing with a predominant fear of her own, find comfort and resolution of their personal problems which touches the heart, titillates the funny bone, and reflects on the debilitating effects of guilt, and the need for personal freedom.

Some love stories don’t end. They wait. When Hazel Whitby purchases an old piano at a quiet Connecticut estate sale, she expects nothing more than a beautiful instrument for her apartment above the bookshop. Instead, she discovers dozens of hidden letters—written during the Vietnam War, bound with faded ribbon, and addressed to a man who never came home the same. As Hazel follows the trail left behind in the piano bench, she uncovers a decades-old love story shaped by war, silence, and the choices people make to survive.