A Novel.
'You are bending over the dryer, pulling out the still-warm sheets, and the knowledge walks up your backbone. You stare at the man you love and you are staring at nothing; he is gone before he is gone.'
When Samantha Morrow's husband leaves her and their eleven-year-old son she is faced with the terrifying prospect of having to recreate her whole life.
After a few faltering steps she starts to put the pieces into place. She fends off her mother, whose idea of getting over a failed marriage is to get a pedicure and get out there dating. She opens her house to a series of lodgers; each of them, in their own eccentric ways, helps her to see herself.
And she makes a friend, King, a graduate turned handyman, who shows her that she holds the key to her own future and happiness . . .
