Keys to the Garden

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Widowed Martha Moreton was a devoted mother to her only child, Lucy When Lucy married Len on a golden July day, Martha tried hard to make the best of things Len was a good man who would make Lucy happy They wouldn't be living far away And the arrival of grandchildren was something she anticipated eagerly Unexpectedly, Len's job took the newly married couple overseas, where their first child was born But sorrow, not joy, came with Dominic's birth On their return, Lucy's best friend, Jennifer, as flighty as Lucy was conventional, was anxious to provide her own kind of consolationMartha, who was experiencing unlooked-for and at first unwelcome changes in her own life, clung fast to the maternal bond that meant so much to herself and Lucy Everything she had come to depend on was overturned, however, before Martha was able to find her own kind of happiness in a very different existence One of Susan Sallis most poignant and involving novels, "The Keys to the Garden" explores the mother-daughter relationship with a rare insight --> Genre: Romance General