Review: The Widow’s Season
The Widow’s Season by Laura Brodie
Genre: Women’s Literature
Published: June 2009 by Berkley Trade
Rating: 4 of 5 stars
The book begins, “Sarah McConnell’s husband had been dead three months when she saw him in the grocery store.”
Reading the back cover of the new novel by Laura Brodie, I thought it would be a ghost story; but it’s actually much more. It’s also a romance, has an element of suspense and plot twists and turns, all made thoroughly enjoyable by Laura Bordie’s beautiful writing style. Her descriptions make the people and places come to life.
In the story, Sarah McConnell is at a turning point in her life. She is 39 years old and a recent widow when she begins to see her dead husband. Her friends dismiss it as grief, but the body was never found. Was he still alive? Was that really him? Sarah begins to see him more often, talk with him and discuss all the things they should have discussed during the years of their marriage. She begins to dwell on the many paths not taken for either of them, the children they never had, the career choices they made. But who is she talking to? Is he alive, is he a ghost or is she having a nervous breakdown?
This book kept me captivated until the very end. I found myself liking the character and empathizing with her, even though I would not have done some of the things she did.To say any more about the plot would spoil the story. I, for one, am looking forward to future novels from Ms. Brodie.
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Source: Public Library
Under My Apple Tree 
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