A poignant novel about a woman who survives breast cancer, only to struggle with what comes next: living. After five cancer-free years, April Newton should be celebrating, but instead she's restless. She feels her husband slipping away, and though the spectacular, stylish house he's building for her should be a fresh start, April finds herself wanting something more. As their move-in date approaches, she becomes obsessed with winning the right to buy the last bungalow in Redondo Beach, convinced that the quirky, lived-in little house represents comfort, completeness-everything she...
A poignant novel about a woman who survives breast cancer, only to struggle with what comes next: living. After five cancer-free years, Ap...
From the author of The Last Beach Bungalow a portrait of a family-in all its heartbreaking complexity. Though she lives in the shadow of her legendary landscape photographer father, and is the mother of a painter whose career is about to take off, Claire has carved out a practical existence as a commercial photographer. Her pictures may not be the stuff of genius, but they've paid for a good life. But when her father dies, Claire loses faith in the work she has devoted her life to-and worse, begins to feel jealous of her daughter's success. Then, as she helps prepare a...
From the author of The Last Beach Bungalow a portrait of a family-in all its heartbreaking complexity. Though she lives in the shad...
Jennie Nash's -winning debut, -* The Last Beach Bungalow, was followed by The Only True Genius in the Family, a -page-turning delight.-** Now she introduces us to two women who learn the lessons of grief--and of hope...
A photo of her sons. A doormat from Target. Twenty-three tubs of fabric. Somehow it comforts Lily to list the things she lost when a wildfire engulfed the Santa Barbara avocado ranch she shared with her husband, Tom. He didn't make it out either. His last act was to save her grandmother's lace from the flames--an heirloom she has never been able to take...
Jennie Nash's -winning debut, -* The Last Beach Bungalow, was followed by The Only True Genius in the Family, a -page-turning delight...
It's 1952 in New York City -- the height of the Red Scare. When the sheltered secretary of a prominent book editor becomes obsessed with the story of a glamorous French lipstick, she becomes convinced that it was the story she was born to write. To do it, however, she must overcome her belief that surrendering to passion of any kind is dangerous -- especially when she enters into a high stakes game of kiss and tell with the editor's star author, who is in desperate need of a story and a muse. They fight for the right to tell the tale, and ultimately, for the right of an author to tell their...
It's 1952 in New York City -- the height of the Red Scare. When the sheltered secretary of a prominent book editor becomes obsessed with the story of ...
The possibilities for agony and defeat lurk everywhere for a writer - at the start of the process when a book idea is forming in your mind and doubt is pounding on the door; in the middle of the process when you begin to show your words to the world and fear gnaws at you like a disease; and at the end of the process when you hope your work will find an adoring audience and must come face to face with how much greed and envy have taken up residence in your heart. It can be a brutal business. In The Writer's Guide to Agony and Defeat, book coach and author Jennie Nash takes you inside 43 of the...
The possibilities for agony and defeat lurk everywhere for a writer - at the start of the process when a book idea is forming in your mind and doubt i...
