Ferris Robinson

Broschiertes Buch

Making Arrangements

Beschreibung

Lang Eldridge, the protagonist in "Making Arrangements," is a cancer-surviving baby boomer whose 'perfect arrangements' go awry after her fit husband drops dead instead of her. A loner, her life has revolved around her husband and her granddaughter, and close friendships between women are something she doesn't quite understand. How do they become so familiar with each other, knowing where the spices are kept in each other's kitchens? Prepared for her own death, Lang has arranged every detail of her husband's life without her, from her decadent caramel cakes with thick creamy icing in the freezer for his first birthday without her to love letters for Christmas, Father's Day, their anniversary... Reeling as a widow, she struggles with impending foreclosure on her beloved historic family estate, a conniving tennis star son, a grammar-butchering fashion plate who decides they are best friends, an unlikely romance and a mute stray dog. She discovers the secret her husband carried to his grave could ruin her life. If she lets it. A novel of funerals, flowers, friendship and forgiveness, themes of family, and its definition, are central to Making Arrangements. Can family be formed when there is no bloodline, and how does that happen? This story is told with "delightfully sassy writing with rich characters you'll want to slap!" according to one reviewer.

Autor

Ferris Robinson lives in a beautiful part of East Tennessee (very similar to Barrington in Making Arrangements) with her husband and two dogs. The mother of three grown sons, she delights in the fact that her dogs obey her - more or less. A former columnist and feature writer for the Chattanooga News Free Press, she is now the editor of the Lookout Mountain Mirror and the Signal Mountain Mirror. Her work has been published numerous times in the Christian Science Monitor and the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. She is a columnist at chattanoogan.com. The author of several cookbooks, including Never Trust a Hungry cook, which she wrote in college, Simplify Supper and the Gorgeless Gourmet's Cookbook, Ferris and her husband were featured on the cover of Woman's World magazine 20 years ago. Promoting her easy but healthy recipes in the Gorgeless Gourment's Cookbook, she made numerous television appearances and sold 10,000 copies of th book, pre-Internet. Her other books include Dogs and Love - Sixteen Stories of Fidelity and Authentic Log Homes, featuring hand-hewn log homes. Making Arrangements is her first novel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peachtree Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 491g
• ISBN-13: 9780965648110
• ISBN-10: 0965648117
• Artikelnr.: 45665704