"It's a matter of death...and life!"

When Emmeline Mandeville spends the final months of her 93rd year reflecting on her eccentric, iconoclastic past, she can't know how profoundly her reminiscences will weave through the lives of the men and women who find themselves living in her house a decade and a half later.

"This novel has everything a brilliant novel should have: Characters you care deeply about and a story you can't put down. Poignant. Humorous. Heart-wrenching."
– Karen Helene Walker, author of "The Wishing Steps"