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The lost husband [electronic resource] : a novel / Katherine Center.
Crazy Aunt Jean has offered Libby an escape from her hypercritical mother--a job and a place to live on her farm in the Texas Hill Country. Life on Aunt Jean's goat farm is both more wonderful and more mysterious than Libby could have imagined.
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- ISBN: 9780345538918 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0345538919 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource.
- Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, c2013.
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| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | Widows > Fiction. Single parents > Fiction. Psychics > Fiction. Country life > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Domestic fiction Electronic books. |
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- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2013 March #2
It's a new year, and Libby Moran is starting a new life. Three years ago, she lost her husband in a car accident. Left with an empty savings account and two small children to feed, Libby sold her house and moved in with her critical, passive-aggressive mother. So when Libby receives a letter from her estranged aunt offering an escapeâroom, board, and a small salary in exchange for helping around the farmâshe grabs it, uprooting her family to the country to milk goats and make cheese. But her new life takes some adjusting to. Her eccentric aunt is harboring a secret, the unkempt farm manager stirs up conflicting feelings, Libby's daughter encounters a problem at school, and the psychic clerk at the feed store is determined to bring back Libby's lost husband. Center writes endearingly of love and family in her fourth novel, with lessons about loss, gain, standing up for oneself, and accepting that your best is good enough. Fans of well-crafted romantic women's fiction won't be disappointed. Copyright 2012 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2013 February #2
A novel about family, love and forgiveness. Libby, a heroine of this story on many levels, loses her husband in an automobile accident and cannot afford to keep the family house. She sells the house and, having no other choice, moves with her two young children to her mother's condominium. She takes a job as a bank teller and must trust her mother to help her care for the children, which is difficult insofar as her critical mother has never taken much interest in her. After two miserable years with her narcissistic mother, Libby receives an invitation from her mother's estranged sister, Jean (the other heroine of the story), to bring the children and live on her farm near Atwater, Texas. Jean says she is suffering from arthritis and needs help with the chores, but there is another, secret reason she yearns to have Libby, her precocious 7-year-old daughter, Abby, and the little boy, "Tank," come live with her. While driving to Jean's, Libby meets two people who will play an important role in her new life. Heart-rending and heartwarming. Copyright Kirkus 2013 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved.
