Full name: Home Safe: A Novel

Author: Elizabeth Berg Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Chick lit, Contemporary Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780345487551

In this new novel, beloved bestselling author Elizabeth Berg weaves a beautifully written and richly resonant story of a mother and daughter in emotional transit. Helen Ames-recently widowed, coping with loss and grief, unable to do the work that has always sustained her-is beginning to depend far too much on her twenty-seven-year-old daughter, Tessa, and is meddling in her life, offering unsolicited and unwelcome advice. Helen's problems are compounded by her shocking discovery that her mild-mannered and loyal husband was apparently leading a double life. The Ameses had painstakingly saved for a happy retirement, but that money disappeared in several large withdrawals made by Helen's husband before he died. In order to support herself and garner a measure of much needed independence, Helen takes an unusual job that ends up offering far more than she had anticipated. And then a phone call from a stranger sets Helen on a surprising path of discovery that causes both mother and daughter to reassess what they thought they knew about each other, themselves, and what really makes a home and a family. Similar books: Range Of Motion by Elizabeth Berg The Last Time I Saw You by Elizabeth Berg Until the Real Thing Comes Along by Elizabeth Berg Once Upon a Time, There Was You by Elizabeth Berg Blue Water by A. Manette Ansay The Memoir Club by Laura Kalpakian Necessary Madness by Jenn Crowell The Widow's Tale by Mick Jackson The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg The Gap Year by Sarah Bird Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett The After Wife by Gigi Levangie Grazer The Secret Between Us by Barbara Delinsky The Tenth Song by Naomi Ragen The Possibilities by Kaui Hart Hemmings Mourning Ruby by Helen Dunmore Goodbye for Now by Laurie Frankel The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted by Elizabeth Berg Enon by Paul Harding Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelet Waldman