Old Country Inns of England (1911)

aShe rolled over onto her side and turned away from everything familiarano longer the woman she wasanot yet the woman she yearned to be.a An unplanned pregnancy early in her marriage forced the gifted Beth Garrison to abandon her dream of becoming a concert pianist. For the next 21 years the needs of a growing family always came first. Now 45 and with her own life hopelessly off course, the unfinished woman was afraid to pass a mirroraterrified shead actually become as invisible as she felt. Though her painful reckoning had begun three years earlier with the tragic death of her older son days after his high school graduation, ultimately it would take an embarrassing fender bender in a local strip mall to evoke an unimaginable destiny. With her husband lecturing abroad and her younger boy away at camp, the summer apart holds much more than solitude. In a courageous unfolding that surrenders all reason, Beth falls desperately in love with a younger woman in whose eyes and arms sheall stumble backward through time and longing to complete the bittersweet journey of her unfinished life. At last Beth is fulfilleda]but her awakening becomes her darkest hour. Intensely personal and sexually charged, An Unfinished Woman is as impossible to put down as it is to forget.