Reading- Home Safe

Home Safe by Elizabeth Berg



Helen Ames - recently widowed, coping with loss and grief, unable to do the work that has always sustained her - is beginning to depend far too much on her 27 years old daughter, Tessa, and is meddling in her life, offering unsolicited and unwelcome advice. Helen's problem are compounded by her shocking discovery that her mild-mannered and seemingly loyal husband was apparently leading a double life. The Ameses had painstakingly saved for a happy retirement, but that money disappeared in several large withdrawals made by Helen's husband before he died.

In order to support herself and garner a measure of much needed independence, Helen takes an unusual job that ends up offering far more than she has anticipated. And then a phone call from a stranger sets Helen on a surprising path of discovery that causes both mother and daughter to reassess what they thought they knew about each other, themselves, and what really makes a home and a family.