275 pages
English language
Published Nov. 20, 2001 by Knopf.
3 stars
(1 review)
"Maine, 1919. Georgia Rice, who has cared for her father and two siblings since her mother's death, is diagnosed, at nineteen, with tuberculosis and sent away to a sanitarium. Freed from the burdens of caretaking, she discovers a nearly lost world of youth and possibility, and meets the doomed young man who will become her lover.".
"Vermont, the present. On the heels of a divorce, Catherine Hubbard, Georgia's granddaughter, takes up residence in Georgia's old house. Sorting through her own affairs, Cath stumbles upon the true story of Georgia's life and marriage, and of the misunderstanding upon which she built a lasting love."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
- Inheritance and succession -- Fiction.
- Home ownership -- Fiction.
- Married people -- Fiction.
- Grandmothers -- Fiction.
- Divorce -- Fiction.
- Vermont -- Fiction.