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  <title><![CDATA[The Widow's Season]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;B&gt;A mesmerizing debut novel about love, grief, and the ghosts who show up where we least expect them.&lt;/B&gt; 

Sarah McConnell&#8217;s husband had been dead for three months when she saw him in the grocery store.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt; What does a woman do when she&#8217;s thirty-nine, childless, and completely alone for the first time in her life? Does it mean she&#8217;s crazy to think she sees her late husband beside a display of pumpkins? Or is it just what people do, a natural response to grief that will fade in time? That&#8217;s what Sarah McConnell&#8217;s friends told her, that it was natural, would last a season, and then fade away.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt; But what if there was another answer? What if he was really there? They never found the body, after all. What if he is still here somehow, and about to walk back into her life?</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2009</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Widow's Season</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Laura Brodie]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Recently I read a review of The Widow’s Season by Laura Brodie. Some words like debut, grief, psychological fiction interested me. I looked Brodie up on the net. After reading the story behind the story I was hooked, so much so that I contacted Laura and she agreed to do a guest author blog post f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77784287">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[What would you do if you saw your dead husband while grocery shopping? Would you chase after him demanding answers? Would you silently think you’re losing your mind due to your grief? Or would you shake off the image as simply wishing it to be your husband, but knowing it is just a complete strang...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69422930">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A woman's husband dies in a flash flood, although no body is recovered.  She begins to &quot;see&quot; his ghost as she grieves, and the reader travels with her on her healing journey while trying to unravel the mystery of &quot;Is he dead or not?&quot;<br/><br/>I love this author's style, the cle...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68675857">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 05 17:39:11 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It has been three months since Sarah McConnell’s husband, David was last seen alive.  He went camping and kayaking. He never returned and his body was never found. Since than Sarah has been seeing David almost everywhere. First it was at the super mart, then on her front porch and finally at the c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65178756">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book begins, <em>“Sarah McConnell’s husband had been dead three months when she saw him in the grocery store.&quot;</em><br/><br/>Reading the back cover of the new novel by Laura Brodie, I thought it would be a ghost story; but it's actually much more. It's also a romance, has an element of suspens...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75662170">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I won this book on GoodReads.com. The author signed on the title page and also enclosed a personal note for me. I was really pleased. <br/>I generally liked this book. It was about a woman whose husband dies in a kayaking accident. The body is never found, and then he starts to visit her. At first w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74479743">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;She knew very well how she looked and sounded on her worst days, and to hell with them if they didn't like it. Life was not always pretty and cheerful, with hair curled and teeth whitened and supper waiting on the table. Life was sometimes a bitter harpy perched on the bedpost.&quot; (page 13)...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77006673">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A woman in her late 30's is widowed.  However, the husband comes and visits her after his death.  Or does he?  Is this all her imagination?  Trying to resolve the differences that had cropped up over the past in their marriage???<br/><br/>At times I feel the husband is really alive and other times...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61244533">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Laura Brodie's debut novel, <em>The Widow's Season</em>, is a dirge of grief, wraiths, and resurrection of a professional woman whose been lost in of the song's cadence for far too long.  Set in Jackson, Va., in a small college town, the season's change and sweep the protagonist, Sarah McConnell along.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65521209">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a fantastic read that kept me engrossed the whole time I was reading it.<br/><br/>Laura Brodie did a fabulous job with the story and the characters. You are drawn in to the story from the very beginning, and are not sure what is fantasy and what is reality. I was kept on the edge of my se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73777626">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not really a ghost story reader, but this book sent chills down my spine a couple of times.  It's a well written tale about grief and the characters are interesting.  Sarah is well acquainted with grief, having suffered many miscarriages, but is not prepared for having her husband around the hou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74621145">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sarah McConnell's husband had been dead three months when she saw him in the grocery store.  Is it really him or is it her grief?  His body has never been found, she is having a relationship with his brother, and is visiting with her husband at their cabin.  Is he there or is she having a breakdown?...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75224597">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A wonderful new book with a memorable Virginia setting, this novel mixes literary and speculative fiction with just the right touch of romance. I highly recommend it, but speculative fiction readers should settle into its relaxed pace before putting it down.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I needed a light read after all of the &quot;heavier&quot; reads I've been doing lately and it served it's purpose.  It did keep me guessing throughout the book, so that part was good, but overall I was disappointed in the ending.  It was a fine &quot;beach&quot; read, but not a &quot;must&quot; rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61655582">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely loved this book!  I could totally relate to the familiarity of holding on to something that truly died long ago while longing for the excitement of the unknown.<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was not bad.  I felt it was a good quick clean read with enough interest to keep guessing.  The ending could have been several different conclusions, but this was fine.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[She was annoyingly liberal. Too much talk about social conscience and things like that. But it was a good book. An interesting story about grief and mourning. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book, and liked the symbolism throughout. It had a nice twist in the middle that I didn't completely expect and kept me interested.]]></body>
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