{"product_id":"the-dearly-departed-9780375724589","title":"The Dearly Departed","description":"With her trademark humor and warmth, the beloved author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ladies' Man\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Inn at Lake Devine \u003c\/i\u003eexplores going home again; about finding light in the dark corners of one's inhospitable past; about love, golf, and DNA. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEveryone in King George, New Hampshire, loved Margaret Batten, part-time amateur actress, full-time wallflower, and single mother to a now-distant daughter, Sunny. But accidents happen. The death of Margaret, side by side with her putative fianc , brings Sunny back to the scene of the unhappy adolescence she thought she'd left behind. Reentry is to be dreaded; there's no hiding in a town with one diner, one doctor, one stop sign, one motel. Yet allies surface; even high school tormentors have grown up in unforeseen and gratifying ways. Just possibly, Sunny begins to think, she wasn't as beleaguered as she felt she was. And maybe her mother's life was richer than anyone suspected. Add to the mix a chief of police whose interest in Sunny exceeds his civic duty, and you have the makings of an irresistibly beguiling tale from an author who writes with all the wit and wry authority of a latter-day Jane Austen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/13\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375724589\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.02h x 5.20w x 0.65d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2002 pg. 23\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/22\/2002 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Elinor Lipman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43096047354037,"sku":"9780375724589","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_56a1b229-d0f7-4630-b2f7-8d89b20d31e6.jpg?v=1692801334","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-dearly-departed-9780375724589","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}