Susannah's garden - debbie macomber

Some paths are dead ends.

But some gardens remain beautiful.

The year Susannah Nelson turned eighteen changed everything: her boyfriend, Jake, left her unexpectedly, and her brother died in a car accident months later.

At fifty, Susannah finds herself regretting the paths not taken.

Long married, a mother and a teacher, she should be happy.

But she feels theres something missing in her life, although she doesnt know exactly what.

Not only that, shes balancing the demands of a temperamental twenty-year-old daughter and an aging mother who now needs her help.

When Susannah goes home to Colville, Washington, to look after her mother, she decides to try to find out what happened to Jake all those years ago.

In returning to her parents house, her girlhood friends and the garden shes always loved, Susannah also returns to the past--and the choices she made back then.

Macomber explores the intricate dynamics of family with sincerity and wit in this well-crafted novel.

-- Publishers Weekly A Blossom Street Novel Book 1: The Shop on Blossom Street Book 2: A Good Yarn Book 3: Susannahs Garden Book 4: Back on Blossom Street Book 5: Twenty Wishes Book 6: Summer on Blossom Street Book 7: Hannahs List Book 8: A Turn in the Road.