Thursday, August 25, 2011

Every Last Cuckoo by Kate Maloy

A 75-year-old woman named Sarah adjusts to life as a widow in this novel which I felt to be a little on the sappy side. She lives n a big old farmhouse with barn and cabin in the woods. With no company but her two dogs, she agrees to take in three teenagers who are having a hard time getting along at home; and then she is called upon to help two other young women with children whose circumstances have made them temporarily homeless. Finally an elderly gentleman writer takes up residence in the cabin adding potentional romance to this work of aging gracefully and recovering from grief. Not a bad read but I found it a little too schmaltzy.

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