Twelve Times Blessed

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From the bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean , a moving story about the modern family and making it work second time around. It is True Dickinson's forty-third birthday and her best friends have gathered in this snowy night on Cape Cod for a celebration. She has been widowed for eight years, but she and her young son, Guy, have created their own self-sufficient little community of two. And True has her hugely successful small business, Twelve Times Blessed, her friends and, for better or worse, her mother. But as she celebrates her birthday, which just happens to fall on Valentine's Day, it seems as if everyone in the world is coupled up but her. Her stable life suddenly seems vulnerable. Then she meets a man who is perfect in every way -- except one. Hank Bannister is immediately attracted to True's beauty, her humour and, most of all, her composure. Never mind that she's ten years older than him. But the age gap seems like an eternity to True. Should she throw caution to the winds? And what will it mean for her son -- and their safe family unit? Twelve Times Blessed is the story of one extraordinary year of transformation in a woman's life. ,and of trying to reconcile the desires of the heart with the responsibiities of family life.

Jacquelyn Mitchard is a journalist and award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of twelve novels for adults, seven novels for teenagers, and five children's books. These include The Deep End of the Ocean, the inaugural selection of the Oprah Winfrey Book Club, as well as two non-fiction books, including Mother Less Child: The Love Story of a Family. She is also a professor of creative writing whose short stories, articles, essays and book reviews have been widely published. A native of Chicago, she now lives on Cape Cod with her family.

'Filled with humour and compassion...her best' Jane Hamilton'Mitchard is a gifted writer' The Times'Riveting...twists that will spin you round' Newsweek