The modest ranch house where Callie Wyeth grew up looks just as she remembers it - right down to the well-worn sheets in the linen closet. But in the years since Callie lived here, almost everything else has changed. Her father, once indomitable, is in poor health. And Callie is a single mother with a beautiful little boy, Henry, who has just been diagnosed with autism. Returning to this quiet New Hampshire community seems the best thing to do, for both her father and her son's sake. Even if it means facing Linden Finch, the one she loved and left for reasons she's sure he'll never forgive. Linden is stunned that Callie is back - and that she has a son. Yet in the warm, funny relationship that develops between Henry and Linden's menagerie of rescued farm animals, Callie begins to find hope. Not just that her son might break through the wall of silence separating him from the world, but that she too can make a new start amid the places and people that have never left her heart...
Review
"Rossiter's second novel (after The Gin & Chowder Club) is an intimate portrayal of a family in crisis, with good character development and a bucolic setting." - Publishers Weekly
About the Author
Nan Parson Rossiter is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and the author-illustrator of several books for children, including Rugby & Rosie, winner of Nebraska's Golden Sower Award, The Way Home, and Sugar on Snow. Nan's newest children's book, The Fo'c'sle, Henry Beston's Outermost House, will be published in late spring, 2012.
Nan is also the author of the women's fiction novel, The Gin & Chowder Club. She hopes that readers who enjoyed Gin & Chowder (or those who haven't discovered it yet!) will look for the same characters in the Christmas anthology, Making Spirits Bright. Nan's new novel, Words Get in the Way, a tender story about a single mom whose young son has autism, will be released in April, 2012.
Nan lives in rural Connecticut with her husband, two handsome sons, and a big yellow Lab named Mulligan.
To learn more visit nanrossiter.com