Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Easy to read (almost read whole book on long coach trip home) but well-written and engrossing epistolary novel. All the letters emanate from an imagined correspondence of her late grandmother ...to friends and relatives...which give the story of her whole life.From her first marriage.....the children, the heartbreaks, business success..and failure...through a second marriage, an unexplored infatuation, bust ups, bereavements...
The most meaningful bit for me was her later life: a husband with dementia, her children with their own lives; the inability to indulge in holidays etc any longer, a preoccupation with death.
"I look around at how few of my friends are left. We are like the survivors of some terrible storm. The quality of life can no longer concern us. For the moment it is enough just to exist."… (lisätietoja)

Novel·la epistolar, molt aconseguida. Dibuixa molt bé el personatge central i una època... entre persones de classe alta americana. Sorprèn la facilitat amb què es mouen pels diferents estats, i fins i tot a Europa, tot i que això forma part de la personalitat de la protagonista i de la seva situació econòmica: una dona amb molta empenta, amb un gran sentit de família, però sense oblidar un deure de contribució a la societat. A la vegada, ens va recordant una filosofia de vida: valorar el que tenim!

És una lectura entretinguda però no només això.… (lisätietoja)

Home free by Hailey_ Elizabeth Forsythe
Kate and her husband, Cliff after 25 years of marriage are splitting up. She will get the house in CA. Nina their daughter is leaving for college.
The car breaks down, Ford is his name and she invites him into her house and lets him use her husbands bathroom and clothes. She hears his story of how they traveled across the US and can't find a home so he puts his wife and children in a woman's homeless shelter so the children can attend school.
He has a sign that says he will work for money in hopes he can make enough to rent an apartment for them all. Kate gives him the Christmas gifts meant for her husband and other gifts for his wife. Alternating chapters of how each is coping with their circumstances.
At times it's confusing to figure out if they're in the past or the present as she talks to her family members and you realize it's the past.
His wife thinks she's just using her husband for her own gain as she's lonely without her daughter and her soon to be ex husband.
So much changes for them all as they continue to live and work. She becomes pregnant and that causes them to come together...
Love how everything that's happened and changed Kate's outlook on life and what she wants to do with the money from the sale of her house.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).… (lisätietoja)