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    The Widow's Mite: Widows, #2
    The Hoarder's Widow: Widows, #2
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    Widows Series

    By Allie Cresswell

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    About this series

    One evening, Viola goes missing.

    Only Maisie cares. Recently, their shared love of gardening has almost blunted Viola's barbs, and Maisie is much in need of a close friend. Her house is a building site, her daughter's wedding is looming ... and then there is Oliver. What does he want from her?

    As Maisie grapples with her present-day preoccupations, Viola's tale unfolds: a dark landscape of tragedy and suffering. Their two stories collide in an explosive finale.

    This third book in the Widows series stands alone. A story of weeds and wildflowers, tenacity and tenderness, and containing potentially upsetting details of domestic abuse, alcoholism, and bereavement, this is ultimately an affirmation of the strength and power of women's friendships.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAllie Cresswell
    Release dateOct 4, 2023
    The Widow's Mite: Widows, #2
    The Hoarder's Widow: Widows, #2

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      The Hoarder's Widow: Widows, #2
      The Hoarder's Widow: Widows, #2

      The Hoarder's Widow: Widows, #2

      Allie Cresswell
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      ** A novel by Readers' Favorite Silver Medalist, Allie Cresswell.** ** "The jewels in Cresswell's story are her gorgeous descriptions from the lush to the austere, from the opulent to the empty." This is a middle-aged coming-of-age story with kindness, mystery and depth.** Suddenly-widowed Maisie sets out to clear her late husband's collection; wonky furniture and balding rugs, bolts of material for upholstery projects he never got round to, gloomy pictures and outmoded electronics, other people's trash brought home from car boot sales and rescued from the tip. The hoard is endless, all part of Clifford's waste-not way of thinking in which everything, no matter how broken or obscure, can be re-cycled or re-purposed into something useful. Now, it appears to Maisie more grimly than ever as what it is: junk. As Maisie disassembles his stash she is forced to confront the issues that drove her husband to squirrel away other people's rubbish. Finally, in the last bastion of his accumulation, she discovers the key to his hoarding and understands – much too late – the man she married.

      ** A novel by Readers' Favorite Silver Medalist, Allie Cresswell.** ** "The jewels in Cresswell's story are her gorgeous descriptions from the lush to the austere, from the opulent to the empty." This is a middle-aged coming-of-age story with kindness, mystery and depth.** Suddenly-widowed Maisie sets out to clear her late husband's collection; wonky furniture and balding rugs, bolts of material for upholstery projects he never got round to, gloomy pictures and outmoded electronics, other people's trash brought home from car boot sales and rescued from the tip. The hoard is endless, all part of Clifford's waste-not way of thinking in which everything, no matter how broken or obscure, can be re-cycled or re-purposed into something useful. Now, it appears to Maisie more grimly than ever as what it is: junk. As Maisie disassembles his stash she is forced to confront the issues that drove her husband to squirrel away other people's rubbish. Finally, in the last bastion of his accumulation, she discovers the key to his hoarding and understands – much too late – the man she married.

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      The Widow's Mite: Widows, #2
      The Widow's Mite: Widows, #2

      The Widow's Mite: Widows, #2

      Allie Cresswell
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      Minnie Price married late in life. Now she is widowed. And starving. No one suspects this respectable church-goer can barely keep body and soul together. Why would they, while she resides in the magnificent home she shared with Peter? Her friends and neighbours are oblivious to her plight and her adult step-children have their own reasons to make things worse rather than better. But she is thrown a lifeline when an associate of her late husband arrives with news of an investment about which her step-children know nothing. Can she release the funds before she finds herself homeless and destitute? Fans of 'The Hoarder's Widow' will enjoy this sequel, but it reads equally well as a standalone.

      Minnie Price married late in life. Now she is widowed. And starving. No one suspects this respectable church-goer can barely keep body and soul together. Why would they, while she resides in the magnificent home she shared with Peter? Her friends and neighbours are oblivious to her plight and her adult step-children have their own reasons to make things worse rather than better. But she is thrown a lifeline when an associate of her late husband arrives with news of an investment about which her step-children know nothing. Can she release the funds before she finds herself homeless and destitute? Fans of 'The Hoarder's Widow' will enjoy this sequel, but it reads equally well as a standalone.

    Author

    Allie Cresswell

    Allie Cresswell was born in Stockport, UK and began writing fiction as soon as she could hold a pencil. She did a BA in English Literature at Birmingham University and an MA at Queen Mary College, London. She has been a print-buyer, a pub landlady, a book-keeper, run a B & B and a group of boutique holiday cottages. Nowadays Allie writes full time having retired from teaching literature to lifelong learners. She has two grown-up children, is married to Tim and lives in Cumbria.

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