"On the weekend of her wedding, Clare Hobbes meets an elderly woman named Edith Herron. During the course of a single conversation, Edith gives Clare the courage to do what she should have done months earlier: break off her engagement to her charming--yet overly possessive--fiancâe. Three weeks later, Clare learns that Edith has died and has given her another gift. Shifting between the 1950's and the present and told in the alternating voices of Edith and Clare, [this] emotionally evocative novel probes the deepest recesses of the human heart and illuminates the tender connections that bind our lives"--Amazon.com.
