The Goddess Abides: A Novel

A widow's New England peace is interrupted by her feelings for two men, one much younger and the other quite older—and the dilemma of choosing between them.

At forty-three, Edith has lost a husband, and has children who have children of their own. Living in a large Vermont house, her days are spent idly reading and playing music. But all of this is to change when two candidates for her affection arrive on the scene. The first is thirty years her senior, a philosopher named Edwin with whom sh...