From acclaimed author Elizabeth Berg, a “touching” (USA TODAY) and lyrical novel about the redemptive power of love over death.
A self-anointed spinster at fifty-one, Myra Lipinski is reasonably content with her quiet life, her dog, and her career as a visiting nurse. But everything changes when Chip Reardon, the golden boy she adored in high school, is assigned as her new patient. Choosing to forgo treatment for an incurable illness, Chip has returned to his New England hometown to spend what time he has left. Now, the two find themselves engaged in a poignant redefinition of roles, and a complicated dance of memory, ambivalence, and longing. “With great tenderness and exquisite vision, Elizabeth Berg details the small truths and grand mysteries of the human heart” (Nora Roberts).
