{"product_id":"heather-finch-9781947041943","title":"Heather Finch","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt forty-two, Heather Finch has cared for and buried her husband after strokes and brain injury; now she embarks on a writing retreat in a cottage in the Scottish Highlands. When Heather believes her small writer’             s cottage is haunted, she must face her past and present fears –              real or imagined –              that populate her mind.Chapters are set three years before juxtaposed with ones set in present day. The “             Remember”              chapters recount her husband Marc’             s stroke, the three years of caretaking she shares with her teenage children, and the end-of-life decisions leading to Marc’             s death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout This Most Amazing : \"Reminiscent of Tracy Chevalier's The Virgin Blue [...] Benjamin's prose is evocative, her characters finely drawn, and the worlds she creates for us give us new ways to think about our own.\" Melissa Schoeffel, author of Maternal Conditions: Reading Kingsolver, Castillo, Erdrich, and Ozeki\u003cbr\u003e\"Readers will be absorbed in the story, but they will also be intrigued by its central question: how does the past endure, not just in history but in our own bodies?\" Angela Sorby, author of Distance Learning, Bird Skin Coat , and The Sleeve Waves, forthcoming with the University of Wisconsin Press, 2014\u003cbr\u003eAbout Heather Finch: \"A gripping tale of marital difficulty intertwined with pallid love affairs ... A widow haunted by the tragic end of her marriage gets her groove back while on a Scottish sojourn in this knotty romance.\"  Kirkus Review","brand":"Running Wild, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516240322903,"sku":"9781947041943","price":16.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/heather-finch-9781947041943","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}