A Stranger's House
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
For a long time, Claire and Tom Templeton have wished in vain for a child. What they have instead is a house, a charming old Cape that is their consolation. In the gray chill of a Massachusetts autumn, the Templetons and two local handymen, loners and eccentrics, work to rebuild the ramshackle home. As the house takes on a new life, Claire begins to understand its tangled history -- and to reconcile her own past and renew her hope for the future.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Claire and Tom Templeton purchase their dream home, and childless, brooding Claire is saved from an incipient breakdown by the house's mutually devoted caretakers--a mentally retarded older man and a teenager. ``Lott hits some emotional bull's-eyes in his portrait of the loving but unhappy Templetons,'' noted PW , ``but the narrative often lapses into sentimentality.''
