Together Alone - Softcover

Barbara Delinsky

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061092819 ISBN 13: 9780061092817

Publisher: HarperCollins,Australia, 1996

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In a novel that interweaves the stories of three different women, Emily Arkin, Kay Davies, and Celeste Prince find their lives, families, personal relationships, careers, aspirations, and dreams forever altered after their daughters leave for college. Reissue.

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New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky weaves a stunning and intricate tapestry of life, love, and acceptance.

With their daughters off to college, the time has come for forever best friends Emily, Kay, and Celeste to redefine themselves as women. Once half of a perfect marriage--still suffering from a terrible loss--Emily hardly knows her workaholic husband, Doug, anymore, and is drawn instead to what is offered by a new neighbor. A dedicated teacher who loves her job, Kay is confused and troubled by husband John's unfamiliar demands. And Celeste, long-divorced and ecstatic with freedom, sees her electric new life dimmed when her child is endangered.

As the three friends struggle to navigate this uncharted territory, they find themselves redefining their dreams, desires, and what it means--to each of them--to be a woman. But before they can bring about change, they must learn the hardest lesson of all: how to love themselves.

Synopsis:

Emily, Kay and Celeste have been best friends forever. Their daughters are close, too, but all the girls are off to college now, and the mothers must redefine themselves as women. Emily, once half of the perfect marriage, hardly knows her workaholic husband Doug anymore. What she wants so badly from him is being offered by her new neighbor, a widower with heart, soul, and grit. Kay, a dedicated teacher, still loves her job, but her husband John is making unfamiliar demands of her, demands that confuse her and make her wonder about their future together. Celeste, long-divorced, is ecstatic with freedom. She searches for the perfect man, but when her daughter is endangered, her electric new life looks terribly dim. As the most precious parts they've hidden for years suddenly demand to be heard, these three women must learn to love themselves. Barbara Delinsky expertly interweaves these three stories in a glorious work that is at once moving, romantic, and real.

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