Broken for You (CD-Audio)

from punxsygal

Margaret Hughes has lived alone in a large Seattle mansion filled with valuable antiques. Now living with a diagnosis of a brain tumor, Margaret decides to expand her life by taking a boarder into her home. Her choice is Wanda Schultz, a young woman with a broken heart and a desire to find her fo...

from booksandjava

This book was a little difficult to get into at first, but it was well worth the effort. I wish the author had told us a bit more at the end about the relationship between two of the characters at the end (It's difficult to explain that statement without spoiling the book.)

from Oregonreader

Margaret Hughes has spent most of her life sealed off from others in her large home. Facing terminal cancer, she asks a waitress what she would do if she had only a year or two left to live, "I'd do what scares me the most...Do the opposite of what I've always done." Margaret decides to open her ...

from bookczuk

I started this book, really couldn't get into it, so put it aside. In the meantime, a friend read it and loved it. At her urging, I picked it up again -- this time, I really liked it. The title is perfect, in so many senses, some that become clearer as the book progresses. What starts out to be t...

from Micalhut

Enjoyed the quirky characters and their chance meetings. The birth of an artist always nabs me whether well-written or not. I'm a slave to these stories. Fortunately this one was - well-written, in my mind. Interesting that objects in the book were a character as important as the people.