Barbara and Elizabeth

This sober, sensible book, Barbara and Elizabeth: Late-Life Lovers, is about two women who have loved men all their lives and then, in their seventies, fall in love (to their astonishment) with each other. By explaining their experience in an easy, talk-to-you-on-the-phone over-a-cup-of-coffee style - their past distinct lives, how the two met, loved, and then courageously worked out a conventional/unconventional life (they took pains to embarrass no one and at the same time each did what she wanted: held on to her own apartment, money, individual identities) - Boardman gives you a sense that you might do things a little differently in the relationship you're in. You might loosen up and live more the way you want, with love. Every story with universal relevance has a local address, and this book will appeal to young and old, rich and poor, gay and straight, and so many others. It's a plucky book that somehow, some way, made me more lion-hearted. -Arlene Heyman, MD, author of Scary Old Sex and Artifact

This book is very important for showing one of the most rarely discussed topics of life - new love later in life. The honest and caring tone to present these ideas is no surprise coming from Elizabeth Boardman. She is a known Quaker elder and seeker well before this lovely new story. -John Calvi, author of The Dance Between Hope & Fear