Women’s Series

By the time Donna announced that she planned to take “five big bags of potatoes, twenty jars from the

By the time Helen returned from the clinic in town, the evening sun had already slipped behind the fir-covered ridge.

Rachel used to joke that her mother-in-law’s little place in southern Ohio was “the farm that ate Saturdays.

The first thing Michael said after the judge signed our divorce papers was: “You should probably start

In the spring of 1983, two sisters sat across from their mother at a worn kitchen table and said the

Michael Carter had not driven back to the small West Virginia town where he grew up in twenty years.

Ethan brought Claire north in June. He had warned her that his hometown was small. What he had not managed

“Linda, you’d better sit down before I tell you this.” Martha came through the kitchen door so fast she

On the morning of his wedding, Daniel Mercer stood in front of a hotel mirror in downtown Chicago and

Every morning at half past eight, Margaret Shaw appeared at the old churchyard on the edge of a Yorkshire village.