Stay the Night - Softcover

Schwartz, Kathleen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1621379094 ISBN 13: 9781621379096

Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Maureen, whose beloved husband died two years ago, is stuck in her bereavement and spends her time hanging out with her outspoken Jewish friend, Susan, and excessively exercising. Life revs up when fifty-five-year-old Bob Goldman, a nurse, moves into the Florida condo next door, then goes into overdrive when her sickly daughter, Alyssa, shows up from Brooklyn needing help. Maureen gradually learns her daughter’s dreadful secrets.

Can Maureen save her daughter? Is she too old to fall in love? To have sex?

About this title

About the Author

Kathleen McMahon Schwartz began her professional life as a girly geek-mathematics major at SUNY Albany, computer programmer/analyst for AT&T and Honeywell in New York, later a tenured college instructor of Information Systems, then a technical writer for several years at AT&T and IBM. Finally tired of tech, she attended a writing seminar at the Stowe Library in Vermont and was inspired to begin a new career path as a fiction writer. Stay the Night is her first novel, and a new romance set in Mexico is underway. Kathleen and her husband recently traded their ski house in Vermont for a pool house in Florida, where her two sons and five stepsons will be frequent visitors. For fun, she was an improvisational role player for over nine years while in New Jersey, performing with a group of actors in many venues, from PTA groups to corporate training sessions. She is now a puppeteer, using her "granny" puppet to entertain at nursing homes.

Review

"Maureen learns you're never too old to make things right, to fall in love, to remember you're beautiful." - Joyce Sweeney, award-winning author "I didn't just read "Stay the Night," I devoured it! This novel hooked me right from the beginning with the funny first page where the character Maureen describes herself in a yoga position with a resulting digestive faux pas. While she's 69 and a widow, there's nothing boring about Maureen! You know right away that you're in the presence of a real character and you're eager to strap along for the ride. As a widow myself, I found her experiences and feelings very true to life. While the novel is categorized as a romance, since there is a love interest, it also has a family conflict and tragedy at the core, centered around the daughter Alyssa. This makes it deeper and more multilayered than most romance novels. I highly recommend the book as a really good read." -Smashwords review by user Saraclee

About this edition

• Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1621379094
• ISBN 13: 9781621379096
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 272