’Knowing domestic detail, an understanding of familiar - some- times conflicting - female emotions and an infectious sentimental optimism.’

--Publishers Weekly

’Smart, witty and so emotionally taut and true that I couldn’t put it down... Berg shows a sparkling ability to distill complex human emotions into a few hundred pages of clear, evocative prose.’

J--ournal Sentinel

’You are bending over the dryer, pulling out the still-warm sheets, and the knowledge walks up your backbone. You stare at the man you love and you are staring at nothing; he is gone before he is gone.’

When Samantha Morrow’s husband leaves her and her eleven year-old son she is faced with the terrifying prospect of havingto recreate her whole life. She struggles to find a way until she opens her house to a series of lodgers. In their eccentric ways each of them helps her to see herself. But their help alone isn’t enough. Then she meets King, and Samantha begins to feel that things are looking up...