From Publishers Weekly
Claire and Tom Templeton purchase their dream home, and childless, brooding Claire is saved from an incipient breakdown by the house's mutually devoted caretakers--a mentally retarded older man and a teenager. "Lott hits some emotional bull's-eyes in his portrait of the loving but unhappy Templetons," noted PW , "but the narrative often lapses into sentimentality."
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From Library Journal
Coupling the small details of time and place with the grand scale of human emotion, Lott has created a moving second novel about a young couple dealing with their childlessness. The story is set within a four-month time period and opens as the Templetons are moving into their dream house in the country. Claire then begins having nightmares about her unborn children after being bitten by a pregnant laboratory rabbit. Swirling around her reborn hope for a child are a co-worker's pregnancy, the stories behind their house's caretakers, and Claire's feelings of loss and fear involving her dead parents. Lott probes, in understated prose, the subtleties of marriage and the parent-child bond. A memorable novel from the author of The Man Who Owned Vermont ( LJ 6/1/87). Michele Leber, Fairfax Cty. P.L., Va.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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