The House on Hope Street: A Novel-Fast Shipping

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In eighteen years of marriage, Liz and Jack Sutherland had built a family, a successfullaw practice, and a happy home near San Francisco, on Hope Street. Then, in an instant,it all fell apart.

It began like any other Christmas morning. But for Jack Sutherland,a five-minute errand ends in tragedy. And suddenly, Liz is alone, in the wake ofan unbearable loss.

How can she go on without her husband, her partner, her bestfriend? How can she grieve when she must console five devastated children, includingone with special needs?

Powered by her children’s love, Liz finds the strengthto return to work, to become both mother and “daddy.” One by one the holidays comeand go, until a devastating accident sends her oldest son to the hospital—and bringsDr. Bill Webster into her life. Bill becomes a friend to Liz as he slowly heals hershattered son.

With the first anniversary of Jack’s death approaching, and withit another Christmas in the house on Hope Street, a new relationship offers new hope,and Liz reflects on the little blessings that give strength when nothing else isleft. But she will face one more crisis before she can look ahead to the beginningof a new life.

The House on Hope Street is about learning to live again after youthink life is over. It is about cherishing small miracles, and believing in big is above all about hope.