Starting Over

Robin Pilcher

ISBN 10: 0312983417 / ISBN 13: 9780312983413

Published by St. Martin's Press, 2003

About this Item

Since her remarkable debut in 1948, Elizabeth Spencer has transfixed readers with her uncanny ability to portray how twisted, chafing, inescapable, and life-supporting (Alice Munro) the ties are that bind families and marriages. Here, with nine new stories, Spencer maps the murky territory between our obligations and our desires (David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times), revealing the deep emotional fault lines and unseen fractures that lie just beneath the veneer of normal family life. Compared to Cheever and Hawthorne, Spencer affirms her stature as one of the outstanding living writers of the American South.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Starting Over
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312983417
• ISBN 13: 9780312983413
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Robin Pilcher, bestselling author of An Ocean Apart returns readers to contemporary Scotland, where the "simple" life has grown somewhat more complicated, but the shortest distance between lonely hearts will always be love...

Sometimes The Hardest Thing In Life...
Liz Dewhurst has witnessed quite a bit in her thirty-seven years: the birth of her son, the death of her mother, the waxing and waning days on the farm where she was raised...the sight of her husband in another woman's arms. Suddenly, she's feeling worn down and used up by the very lifestyle upon which she once thrived. Bitterness at her broken marriage has distanced her from her son, Alex-even as she's poured all her remaining energy into battling the development company that wants to purchase her family's land to build a golf course.

...Is To Live It
Now Liz must confront a few things, including the fate of the farm, her feelings for her ex-husband, and a trip to Spain that rekindles a fire in her she had forgotten existed. The Liz who returns to Balmuir is a different woman. Now, in the wake of a near-tragedy, she must draw on her newfound strength to make a difficult choice. To look at her life in a different way, standing tall, and...

Starting Over

About the Author

Robin Pilcher has spent too long behind the scenes. Pilcher has worked as a farmer, assistant film cameraman, and PR consultant, and is the child of bestselling novelist Rosamunde Pilcher. An Ocean Apart, Robin Pilcher's first novel, was a New York Times bestseller and a favorite among Pilcher fans, old and new.