Henrietta Rose

Henrietta Rose is a woman felled by drink for most of her life and now sober if slowed by some delayed effects of her habit. She is a nave painter a raconteur and sought-after speaker at AA meetings and a good Samaritan to some colorful young drunks. Once she was a rich and famous hostess in exotic capitals and mother of three children whom she has lost here and there. Her losses haunt her but sobriety tickles her too; she screws up her courage to give a series of dinner parties to reacquaint herself with her brother and grandson and gives one last grand party for them and all her new friends.