Eleanor and Abel

About this book

When a storm tears a hole in Miss Eleanor Bannisters roof the itinerant carpenter who volunteers to repair it is so capable and charming that he remodels Miss Eleanors life. A retired schoolteacher in the town where shes always lived Eleanor at age sixty-nine finds the sudden presence of Abel Brown in her life unnerving and unsettling--and after a time irresistible. He shakes up her fixed ideas of who she is and starts her wanting something she never imagined for herself. Amid many complications Eleanor and Abel proceed on the fractious course of their courtship in a novel that is never less than captivating witty and pointedly clear-eyed.