The Middle Ages: A Novel

The Middle Ages: A Novel by Fields, Jennie. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780060517465.

When you least expect it, life can turn you around. Take forty-something Jane Larson. Although she views her situation with wry humor, her life feels frozen. An architect, shes had the same job for eighteen years, designing chain banks, grocery stores, and dry cleaners instead of the beautiful houses she craves to create. Living in Brooklyn with her difficult teenage daughters, shes lost all hope for the possibility of love or excitement. Then shes let go from her firm and is suddenly free to pursue her career dreams. And when she contacts her old college flame, an exhilarating long-distance correspondence with him reawakens that part of her shes long ignored. Does Jane have the courage to gamble with her heart? Can happily-ever-after be a reality for people whove done it all before? With warmth and humor Fields explores the territory of middle age, proving that its never too late to reinvent your life, or to take the risks that bring us the pleasures we all deserve.