The Furniture Makers

<br><br><b>The Furniture Makers And Other Tales Lacking Abject Misery</b><br><br>This collection begins with the novella The Furniture Makers. Circa 1928 Laurence Olivet a socially reticent bookbinder is on her way to a winter holiday in the country when fate intervenes to strand her in a rural village on the sea. She does not find romance there; nor mystery; nor the redemptive power of simple country living. What she does find is the will to cast aside the safety of a respectable life in order to live a fulfilling one. Her experience not only upends her own life but is the catalyst that changes the lives of the strangers who take her in and the basis of a lasting and unlikely friendship.<br><br>Other tales included in this collection range from the encounter between an aging retiree and a young boy experiencing their first brushes with grief a family crisis amid war and a wayward ghost that unexpectedly follows two young children and their father to a most inappropriate residence in their living room.