Open House

by ElizabethBerg (Author)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $3.36

  When Samantha Morrow's husband leaves her and her eleven-year-old son she is faced with the terrifying prospect of having to recreate her whole life. After a few faltering steps she starts to put the pieces into place. She opens her house to a series of lodgers who each in their eccentric way help her to see herself. She fends off her mother, whose idea of getting over a failed marriage is to get a pedicure and get out there dating. And she makes a friend, King, an MIT graduate turned handyman, who shows her that she has the ability to make her own future and her own happiness ...

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.36

  You are bending over the dryer, pulling out the still-warm sheets, and the knowledge walks up your backbone. You stare at the man you love and you are staring at nothing; he is gone before he is gone.'When Samantha Morrow's husband leaves her and her eleven-year-old son she is faced with the terrifying prospect of having to recreate her whole life. She struggles to find a way until she opens her house to a series of lodgers. In their eccentric ways each of them helps her to see herself. But their help alone isn't enough. Then she meets King, and Samantha begins to feel that things are looking up.

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  Hardcover
  2000

  $3.36