Home Safe
A husband dies, his wife and daughter mourn, and then the real story begins. Recently widowed Helen Adams thought she knew her husband, never imagining that her gentle, attentive life partner had been leading a costly double life. With her inheritance already squandered and her memories in...
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A husband dies, his wife and daughter mourn, and then the real story begins. Recently widowed Helen Adams thought she knew her husband, never imagining that her gentle, attentive life partner had been leading a costly double life. With her inheritance already squandered and her memories in shambles, she must fumble with improvised plans to keep herself afloat. Meanwhile, her 27-year-old daughter, Tessa, finds herself at a crossroads, or even several crossroads at once. Drawing closer despite early misunderstandings, they embark on unseen roads and fresh adventures. This quintessential Elizabeth Berg relationship novel is an absorbing read.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780739325483 (0739325485)
Publish date: April 28th 2009
Publisher: Random House Audio
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Adult,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Womens,
Relationships
Grief. Writing - not writing. Family: husbands and wives, mothers and daughters, being a parent. Secrets. There's a lot this book is about, and, at the same time, it seems like it's not really about anything. I liked it a lot: any book that has more than three post-it notes in it has got someth...
I love this author, and parts of the story were great, but other parts really dragged for me.
Helen, the protagonist, was so unappealing and annoying, I wondered why I was continuing to read about her.
3.5 STARSAn interesting exploration of what "home" means to both Helen Ames and her daughter Tessa.Helen is a writer who's husband died unexpectedly and has come to rely on her daughter Tessa for more than she'd like to admit.Midge is Helen's friend who tells her that she needs to let Tessa grow up ...
In the aftermath of reading books like In Cold Bold and Sworn to Silence, I needed to visit with an old friend, so I picked up my autographed copy of Home Safe. And I may have said it before, but reading an Elizabeth Berg novel is like spending the afternoon with an old friend, one you feel comforta...
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