ASIN: B00N32OERW
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 495
Maggie Faulkner buried her true identity long ago in order to live in the shadow of her politically aspiring husband Leonard. So much so that over the years, she becomes sarcastic, pessimistic and cynical; and it is forever embarrassing, especially to her daughter Gillian. When Maggie and Leonard divorce, guess what she is faced with? The absence of Leonard’s distracting shadow and the non-existence of exposure to unconditional relationships with the people closest to her. Oh, how much we learn about ourselves from our mere association with children! Raymond, a parent-less, seven year old boy whose childlike stare tugs at Maggie’s very soul, waters her parched heart. Raymond finds in Maggie, the ‘mother’ he thought he’d lost. Geoffrey, a divorcee like herself, recognizes a kinship spirit in Maggie and, like a gardener who talks to his plants, develops a relationship with her that ...
