First published 2009
A woman falls in love with younger men until she finds unexpected happiness where she least expects it. Another woman realizes the truth about her failing relationship at the exact moment she delivers her baby. A nun leaves her convent for a holiday with her wild sister and learns what devotion really means. These women navigate the small moments that reshape their lives completely. Patricia Henley captures twenty years of ordinary people facing extraordinary realizations. Her nineteen stories dig into birth, desire, and discovery. Each character confronts the gap between what they thought they wanted and what they actually need. Henley writes about bodies and longing without flinching. She finds the sacred in the mundane and shows how a single moment can redefine everything.
Genres: fiction, short-stories, literary-fiction, contemporary, 21st-century, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional-atmospheric, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unexpected-happiness
Period: 20th-century, 21st-century
271 pages · Kindle Edition · MP Publishing Limited