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In this new novel, beloved bestselling author Elizabeth Berg weaves a beautifully written and richly resonant story of a mother and daughter in emotional transit. 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.From the Hardcover edition.
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Fiction, Widows, Parent and adult child, Mothers and daughters, Psychological fiction, Domestic fiction, Literature & Fiction -- Women's Fiction -- Mothers & Children, Family secrets, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2009-05-17, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, family life, general, Widows, fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Fiction, psychologicalShowing 5 featured editions. View all 5 editions?
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Home safe: a novel
2009, Ballantine Trade Paperbacks
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Home Safe: A Novel (Random House Large Print)
April 28, 2009, Random House Large Print
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"One Saturday when she was nine years old, Helen Ames went into the basement, sat at the card table her mother used for folding laundry, and began writing."
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