Lynne Griffin

Life Without Summer Lynne Griffin

Publisher Marketing: Tessa Gray s life changes forever when she loses her four-year-old daughter, Abby, in a hit-and-run accident outside her preschool. Once a vivacious, joyful mother and wife, Tessa now spends her days holed up in Abby s room, sleeping in her bed, clutching Abby s Tootsie Rabbit stuffed animal anything to keep her memories close. As Tessa grapples with a terrible grief, made worse by the police s insistence that the case is unsolvable, she finds solace in Celia Reed, the therapist her husband has pushed her to see, and in the journal she s keeping, where she compulsively counts the days without Abby and maps out her plan for catching the driver who tore her family apart. As Celia struggles to keep Tessa from getting caught up in a bleak crusade for answers, she finds that their sessions open the door to emotions that she s spent years ignoring, forcing her to face the rising tensions in her life her troubled teenage son, her alcoholic ex-husband, and her fragile new marriage. Celia begins to realize that she must come to terms with the tragic mistakes of her past and the choices that have led her family to their own brink of destruction. A haunting portrait of two women whose lives converge unexpectedly, "Life Without Summer" illuminates connections between love, marriage, truth, and forgiveness no listener will forget." Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 11/10/2008 pg. 28 (EAN 9780312383886, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Booklist 02/15/2009 pg. 30 (EAN 9780312383886, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2009 (EAN 9780312383886, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Griffin, Lynne Lynne Griffin is a nationally recognized expert on family life. She is the author of "Negotiation Generation: Take Back Your Parental Authority Without Punishment" (Berkley/Penguin 2007), and the novels "Life Without Summer "and "Sea Escape". As the parenting contributor for Boston's Fox 25 Morning News, she appears regularly in the segment Family Works. Lynne teaches in the graduate program of Social Work and Family Studies at Wheelock College, and at Grub Street Writers. She lives outside Boston, Massachusetts with her family. Contributor Bio:  Eby, Tanya Tanya Eby is a narrator and novelist who has narrated more than fifty "New York Times" and "USA Today" bestsellers, earning two AudioFile Earphones Awards. She has a BA in English language and literature from Grand Valley State University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Southern Maine. She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with her children.