| Women's Intuition Contributor(s): Samson, Lisa (Author) |
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ISBN: 1578565960 ISBN-13: 9781578565962 Publisher: Random House Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $19.94 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2002 Annotation: Lark Summerville's life has few surprises-and that's just how she likes it. All she wants is to live out her angst-riddled life in her blue-collar Baltimore neighborhood, punctuated by weekly trips to her local parish, where Lark is organist, and telephone conversations with desperate souls who dial her hotline at 1-777-IPRAY4U. Then one night, Lark's home is destroyed by a fire, forcing her out of her comfortable nest and back to the childhood home she has avoided for years. At Stoneleigh House, Lark is surrounded by three very different women: her grown daughter, Flannery; her barely tolerable socialite mother, Leslie; and Prisma Percy, housekeeper and family confidante, all of whom believe Lark was widowed years before. In this circle of women, Lark's carefully constructed existence begins to unravel, even as the promise of a new one unfolds. But when her contrite ex-husband shows up, longing to assume his role as Flannery's father, twenty years after his desertion, Lark finds that she must face her own lies-and her past-before a new life can unfold. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Christian - General - Fiction | Religious - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2002006908 |
| Physical Information: 0.96" H x 5.55" W x 8.56" (1.13 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Evangelical - Geographic Orientation - Maryland - Religious Orientation - Christian - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Family - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic |
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| Publisher Description: Lark Summerville's life has few surprises-and that's just how she likes it. All she wants is to live out her angst-riddled life in her blue-collar Baltimore neighborhood, punctuated by weekly trips to her local parish, where Lark is organist, and telephone conversations with desperate souls who dial her hotline at 1-777-IPRAY4U. Then one night, Lark's home is destroyed by a fire, forcing her out of her comfortable nest and back to the childhood home she has avoided for years. At Stoneleigh House, Lark is surrounded by three very different women: her grown daughter, Flannery; her barely tolerable socialite mother, Leslie; and Prisma Percy, housekeeper and family confidante, all of whom believe Lark was widowed years before. In this circle of women, Lark's carefully constructed existence begins to unravel, even as the promise of a new one unfolds. But when her contrite ex-husband shows up, longing to assume his role as Flannery's father, twenty years after his desertion, Lark finds that she must face her own lies-and her past-before a new life can unfold. |