Home safe a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9781588368522 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 1588368521 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
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Physical Description:
electronic
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: New York : Random House, c2009.
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General Note: | Title from eBook information screen. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1824 KB). |
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Subject: | Widows -- Fiction Mothers and daughters -- Fiction Parent and adult child -- Fiction |
Genre: | EBOOK. Psychological fiction. Domestic fiction. Electronic books. |
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Summary:
Helen Ames--recently widowed, coping with loss and grief, unable to do the work that has always sustained her--is beginning to depend far too much on her twenty-seven-year-old daughter, Tessa, and is meddling in her life, offering unsolicited and unwelcome advice. Helen's problems are compounded by her shocking discovery that her mild-mannered and loyal husband was apparently leading a double life. The Ameses had painstakingly saved for a happy retirement, but that money disappeared in several large withdrawals made by Helen's husband before he died. In order to support herself and garner a measure of much needed independence, Helen takes an unusual job that ends up offering far more than she had anticipated. And then a phone call from a stranger sets Helen on a surprising path of discovery that causes both mother and daughter to reassess what they thought they knew about each other, themselves, and what really makes a home and a family.