Nellie and her family live in a small town and are having financial problems. They have a rental to help ends meet and one of the tenants is murdered. Nellie is in the house at the time with her grandfather's hired handyman who is working in the basement. That is the bare bones of the story witho...
Nellie Peck is a delightful character -- on the very edge between childhood and adulthood. She makes me remember feeling averse to many adult traits and being completely sure that I would be different and not fall into the grownups world of compromise. The Peck family are wonderfully drawn as is ...
Nora Trimble Hammond was living the perfect life. When a relationship between her husband and her best friend comes out into the open that illusion of perfection becomes the nightmare of trying to hold together a family that is slowly disintegrating. As if that isn't enough, a spectre from her pa...
“Songs in Ordinary Time” was an Oprah Book Club pick in June 1997. Some might call it a 740-page tome. I loved every word. In hundreds of mini-chapters, Morris takes readers to the summer of 1960 in small-town Atkinson, Vermont, where readers meet Marie Fermoyle, a divorced mother of three, alon...
I honestly and truly have no idea how to rate this book. She is a good writer- there's no question there and she sure gets that dismal depression which has taken over a lot of the east coast-particularily New England. But gimme a break. It got to the point that I physically could not read anythin...