Wedding Ring

About this book

"Richards pieces together each womans story as artfully as a quilter creates a quilt... Transcendent endowed with warmth and compassion."Booklist Three generations of women discover the healing gift of family memories and love Needing time to contemplate her troubled marriage Tessa MacRae agrees to spend the summer helping her mother and grandmother clean out the family home in Virginias Shenandoah Valley. But the three women have never been close. Helen the family matriarch is domineering and sharp-tongued. Nancy Tessas mother appears to be little more than a social climber. And Tessa herself is in turmoil following a family tragedy that has affected them all. Now with the gift of time Tessas eyes are opened and she begins to see her mother and grandmother for the flawed but courageous women they are. As she restores a vintage wedding ring quilt pieced by her grandmother and quilted by her mother the secrets that have shadowed their lives unfold at last. And each woman discovers that sometimes you have to clean house to find the things you thought were lost forever. Previously published