Book description
It was the year that changed everything. . . When Susannah Nelson
turned eighteen, she said goodbye to her boyfriend, Jake--and never saw
him again. She never saw her brother, Doug, again, either. He died
unexpectedly that same year. Now, at fifty, Susannah finds herself
regretting the paths not taken. Long married, a mother and a teacher,
she should be happy. But she feels there's something missing in her
life. Not only that, she's balancing the demands of an aging mother and
a temperamental twenty-year-old daughter. Her mother, Vivian, a recent
widow, is having difficulty coping and living alone, so Susannah goes
home to Colville, Washington. In returning to her parents' house, her
girlhood friends and the garden she's always loved, she also returns to
the past--and the choices she made back then. What she discovers is that
things are not always as they once seemed. Some paths are dead ends. But
some gardens remain beautiful. . . . It was the year that changed
everything. . . When Susannah Nelson turned eighteen, she said goodbye
to her boyfriend, Jake--and never saw him again. She never saw her
brother, Doug, again, either. He died unexpectedly that same year. Now,
at fifty, Susannah finds herself regretting the paths not taken. Long
married, a mother and a teacher, she should be happy. But she feels
there's something missing in her life. Not only that, she's balancing
the demands of an aging mother and a temperamental twenty-year-old
daughter. Her mother, Vivian, a recent widow, is having difficulty
coping and living alone, so Susannah goes home to Colville, Washington.
In returning to her parents' house, her girlhood friends and the garden
she's always loved, she also returns to the past--and the choices she
made back then. What she discovers is that things are not always as they
once seemed. Some paths are dead ends. But some gardens remain
beautiful. . . .
