Open House

This amazing book by the well-known author of Talk Before Sleep, The Pull of the Moon, and Until the Real Thing Comes Along follows a woman as she opens her home and her heart to rebuild her life after divorce.

After going on an extravagant shopping spree at Tiffany's, Samantha, whose husband has left her, settles down to start again with her eleven-year-old son. Although her strange mother makes an effort to assist her by setting her up on dates, money is a more urgent issue. Sam chooses to take in boarders in order to pay her mortgage. The first is an elderly lady who provides much-needed consolation and wise counsel; the second is a troubled student who is less than helpful. Samantha's unconventional new buddy King advises her to go out and get employment. Her true task, however, is this: She has to learn how to create her own happiness if she is to get beyond the past and her pain. She has to go into her heart to really see others. She also has to remember—and reclaim—the person she was before she changed into someone else in an attempt to keep her marriage together if she wants to know who she is. A woman's inner beauty and the potential for love between a man and a woman are both explored in Open House.