the five stages of falling in love by rachel higginson

So even though I fell short in my goal, I still want to talk a bit about some of the best books I read in 2016. And that’s including my daily Bible and devotional book reading. But I have friends who routinely read over a hundred, even up to two hundred. There will be a cover and title reveal in the coming months!

I’m still working out how much of that to include in my own story. That’s definitely a plot element in THE LIFE INTENDED. But with death, if the husband was still alive, the new guy wouldn’t be in the picture. That men felt threatened by her dead husband. The woman said, no, just the opposite, actually. The woman was very attractive and someone commented that she must have lots of men pursuing her since she was single, intelligent, and beautiful. The group of beginning gardeners form friendships, and Lillian and the instructor hit it off too.Īll of these books showed women working out and through their grief in different ways.Īnother friend recently told me a story about a young widow she’d met.

Her boss sends her to a gardening class, so she brings her kids and her sister along. Lillian is an illustrator, and assigned to draw vegetables for a series of guides. The youngest is too little to have any real memories of her father, killed in an accident in front of their house. Lillian has been widowed for three years, and raising her two daughters alone. THE GARDEN OF SMALL BEGINNINGS by Abbi Waxman. I read several books in the last few years with young widowed protagonists that really stayed with me, and they definitely influenced my choice to make my protagonist a young widow. I haven’t been widowed, but I’ve had widowed friends and family members. The protagonist in my work in progress (WIP) is a young widow.

Cami is intensely private, but ends up in a relationship with a professional baseball player, under constant scrutiny. That led to the heroine of my first completed (but still unpublished) novel, Curveball. I got to thinking about the stress of having to look flawless every time you left the house, even if your child was ill and you were taking him or her to the doctor. I ran into the wife at our shared pediatrician’s office one day and she was dressed gorgeously with perfect hair and make up. We lived in Southern California at the time and attended church with a Los Angeles Dodger team member’s family. Another friend told me about her cousin who was married to a professional athlete and the demands put on the wives of the team members.

The five stages of falling in love by rachel higginson