Remember the Children

Clare Wilson, a widow in her eighties, lost her husband long ago, her beloved son to a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, and in the last few years, to old age, two dear friends, one of most of her life, the second only recently encountered. She has written about all this in her earlier books, In the Grieving of her Days and A Late Finding.

Now, appalled though she is by the horrifying wars in Ukraine and the Holy Land, and the rampaging return of President Trump, she is still sustained by her C...