SummaryLucy Clare has written a gift for women over forty: an
absolute gem
of a book that depicts with refreshing honesty and dignity
a woman
who won't ever be confused with Ally McBeal. The week of her fiftieth birthday would always be one
to
remember. First Lydia "Liddy" Claver lost her teaching
job. Then
she learned that her husband of thirty years was having an
affair
with one of her friends. But all that paled to the
discovery that, she
was not, as she had thought, menopausal, but instead in
the third
trimester of pregnancy. Mustering her courage, Liddy must
reconcile the impending arrival and its ramifications to
the
husband she loves (but hasn't slept with in five years),
to her three
grown children, and above all, herself.
Finding herself in a situation where nearly everyone is
willing to
offer her an opinion, but no one is willing to consider
hers, Liddy,
six months pregnant, sets off on a journey that starts in
sorrow and
confusion and ends - with complications all along the way -
with
Hope.
Completely captivating, Hoping for Hope introduces an
honest-to-
goodness storyteller in author Lucy Clare. Beyond a
splendid
talent for both dialogue and character, Clare has devised
an
unforgettable plot that will have readers buzzing and
wondering
exactly what is going to happen as this highly original
novel of
love, family, and obligation carries them to its end.
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