?In the winter of 1982?? long before she became the watercolor artist and author we know today?? Susan Branch?? 34-years-old and heartbroken from the sudden and unexpected end of her marriage in California?? "way from home" to the Island of Martha's Vineyard hoping to gain perspective.

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? ? ?It was meant to be temporary?? a three-month time-out from the daily grind of being broken up and miserable?? but within days of her arrival?? alone and not quite in her right mind?? Susan "dentally" bought a tiny one-bedroom cottage in the woods ~ which is how she discovered she was moving 3??000 miles away from everyone and everything she had known and loved.

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? ? ?Funny?? observant?? touching?? and addictive (you are not going to want this book to end)?? based on the di