""Christensen is a forceful writer whose . . . prose is visceral and poetic. . . . She is a portrait artist, drawing in miniature, capturing the light within."-San Francisco Chronicle From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growing older, and the complications of family that is the story of a fifty-something woman who goes home-reluctantly-to Maine after the death of her mother. Can you ever truly...

"Olivia Taylor's marriage is in a death spiral when she agrees to come home to the Hamptons to help her father and sisters pack up the family estate. If it looks like she's running away from her soon-to-be ex, Wes, and New York City, well, she is. But someone has to take care of things and that's always been Olivia's role in the family. After years of financial trouble, someone's finally bailing them out with a huge offer to buy their beachfront property,...

Molly is trying to make a fresh start with her teenage son after her divorce. But she is feeling very much squeezed between her son's acting out and the challenges of caring for her beloved father, recently felled by a stroke. Moving back to her hometown to be closer to her father brings back memories, not least because some things, and people, have barely changed at all. Those of her life with her father are good, but a violent trauma defined Molly's...

After her marriage ends, Grace follows her dream of starting up a cat sanctuary in Crete. But things don't run smoothly. With funds running low, she secures a job at a local restaurant that brings its own surprises. She works hard to get the villagers on her side, and engages a local vet to help her. But when a friend visits, assumptions are made, putting their relationship in jeopardy. Will an altercation with a local man scupper her plans?

Divorce had left a bitter taste in Grace's mouth, leaving her questioning everything about her life - especially the fakeness of her Hollywood career. Escaping to Cornwall, she hoped for peace and quiet to sort everything out in her mind. But what she hadn't bargained on was Merryn Clemo and his family, and the impact they would have upon her heart...