Evensong A Novel [Paperback]

In 1939, Maggie Doud married Garfield Maguire. Now, fifty years on, shes Margaret Maguire: a widow and a grandmother, unable to ignore the consequences of having married a cruel and arrogant man. Her daughters are strangers to each other, past hope of reconciling. Margarets granddaughter could be the one to break the cycle, but she cant do it alone. Beautifully rendered and poignantly told,What a gorgeous, poignant book Kate Southwood has written!Distinctive.& [An introspective novel about a woman hoping for closure before death.Kate Southwood writes as beautifully about the grit and poetry of daily life as she does about the lies we tell each other and ourselves. In its gentle but insistent urge toward knowledge,As a woman looks back on a single, faulty decision that marred the course of her days, Kate Southwoods?InA penetrating and powerful novel about the deep undercurrents of love and regret in one Midwestern family.