Songs Without Words

Liz and Sarabeth have been friends forever childhood neighbours bound togetherin adolescence by a devastating event the suicide of Sarabeths mother whenthe girl... » 

Liz and Sarabeth have been friends forever childhood neighbours bound togetherin adolescence by a devastating event the suicide of Sarabeths mother whenthe girls were just sixteen. In the decades that followed through Lizsmarriage and the birth of her children through Sarabeths depressions and hervolatile love affairs their relationship has remained a source of continuityand strength a fixed point amid the tumult of their adult lives. But when anunforeseen calamity strikes at the heart of Lizs family all the assumptions the deepest habits of their friendship are revealed in a strange new lightand Liz and Sarabeth must question everything they thought they knew about eachother and themselves. Ann Packers new novel expertly explores the inequitiesbetween close friends the unspoken roles hidden expectations and deepresentments that can be violently exposed by a true crisis and the enduranceand limits of bonds forged in childhood. «