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June 15, 2004

Love Among the Ruins Book List

When love has failed you and you don't think you ever want it again, you'll sometimes find it in unexpected places on the Love Among the Ruins book list. Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list.

Mary Sheepshanks. Picking up the Pieces
Kate is in her fifties, recently widowed, and coping with the difficulties--and occasional pleasures--of flying solo. Helped and hindered in equal measures by her delightful but wicked old mother-in-law, Cicely, she finds new strengths and must face undiscovered weaknesses. But when her daughter is estranged by her husband, Kate finds herself forced into a role she cannot assume, and realizes it is time to stop outside her family's preconceived notions. What follows is a delightful story of the relationships and unspoken power struggles between four generations of women.