Wedding Ring (Mira)

by EmilieRichards (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2005

  $19.81

  Needing time to contemplate her troubled marriage, Tessa MacRae agrees to spend the summer helping her mother and grandmother clean out the family home in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. But the three women have never been close. Helen, the family matriarch, is domineering and sharp-tongued. Nancy, Tessa's mother, appears to be little more than a social climber. And Tessa herself is in turmoil following a family tragedy that has affected them all. Now, with the gift of time, Tessa's eyes are opened, and she begins to see her mother and grandmother for the flawed but courageous women they are. As she restores a vintage wedding-ring quilt pieced by her grandmother and quilted by her mother, the secrets that have shadowed their lives unfold at last. And each woman discovers that sometimes you have to clean house to find the things you thought were lost forever.

• Used

  Paperback
  2006

  $3.25

  Tessa MacCrae has reluctantly agreed to spend the summer helping her mother and grandmother clean out the family home. They've never been close, but Tessa hopes that time away will help her avoid facing the tragedy of her daughter's death and the toil it's exacting on her marriage. At first, the summer is filled with all-too-familiar emotional storms. Helen, the family matriarch, is domineering and incapable of sharing feelings, and Nancy, Tessa's mother, appears to be little more than a social climber. But with the passing weeks each of their lives begin to change. And for the first time, Tessa can look past years of resentment.