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This poignant, contemporary novel's leitmotif is the successful process of recuperation after such significant losses as death, divorce, serious illness, marital infidelity, and a change in family constellation; it is also a tale about friendship and about the stubborn strength of women, who refuse to cave in when troubles visit them. They face inevitable blows, but learn to compensate, to support each other, and to celebrate the joys still coming their way.

The central figure, Katharina, a retired physician and recent widow, learns to work through the grief of losing her...

This book is the true story of children, made homeless at the conclusion of World War Two, who found a home in an unusual school at an unusual time. It is the story of dedicated teachers, remarkable, supportive parents and spirited youngsters, rapidly growing to adulthood during highly unusual circumstances. The story is about people and about their struggles to overcome the ordeal of witnessing the collapse of the familiar. While facing the loss of home, future, and security, they managed to transmit to their children, or to their students those values and ideals which were the very...