Description
When Susannah Nelson turned eighteen, she said goodbye
to her boyfriend, Jakeand 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 pastand 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....