Bøker av Susan G Weidener

For some time, Ava felt the best years of her life ended when Jay died. They seemed the most promising, brimming with excitement and expectation, where anything was possible. In the years after Jay's death, friends, family, and a good dog sustain her. As she looks back on her memories, she begins writing her memoir. What had it all meant? Where does she go from here? Can she put the past behind her? Her best friend's devastating diagnosis of Alzheimer's and the transformational power of international travel lead to surprising revelations and a path forward. Told with beauty and warmth, insight and style, And the Memory Returns captures one woman's journey as she ages and finds healing and redemption. And the Memory Returns completes the story of Ava Stuart in Susan G. Weidener's debut novel, A Portrait of Love and Honor: A Novel Based on a True Story.

Morning at Wellington Square offers an intimate portrait of a woman's search for passion and renewal as she navigates a new path after the death of her husband and loss of her career as a journalist. The prequel to this book is Again in a Heartbeat, a memoir of love, loss and dating again.Morning at Wellington Square is a brave and beautiful book. By telling what is hers to tell without pretension, and with elegance, Ms. Weidener widens the field of possibilities for memoir writers across a spectrum of experience." Mary Pierce Brosmer, Founder, Women Writing for (a) Change "The lesson I took away from her book was this: if we are open to where life takes us, we make discoveries and we create a new life that opens out in its magic to offer us ways to live that we might never have discovered. In Morning at Wellington Square , we invest in the adventure of day-to-day living, discovery, and renewal." Linda Joy Myers, founder, National Association of Memoir Writers

Newly-divorced and on her own, 40-something Ava Stuart forges a new life. One day, at a signing in the local library for her novel, a tall, dark-haired man walks in and stands in the back of the room. Jay Scioli is a wanderer - a man who has said good-bye to innocence, the U. S. Army, and corporate America. His outlook on life having changed, his health shattered by illness, he writes a memoir. In his isolation, he searches for an editor to help him pick up the loose ends. Time may be running out. He is drawn to the striking and successful Ava. Facing one setback after another, their love embraces friendship, crisis, dignity, disillusionment. Their love story reflects a reason for living in the face of life's unexpected events.Based on a true story, A Portrait of Love and Honor takes the reader from the halls of the United States Military Academy at West Point during the Vietnam War to a moving love story between two people destined to meet.

When John and Susan meet they find in each other the alchemy and connection of friend and lover, husband and wife. As they await the birth of their second child, all seems right with their world. Then the unthinkable happens. "Love," Weidener writes, "is a long close scrutiny." This is a story of adversity and strength, courage and honor, of deep love and loss which asks the question . . . if you had to do it all over again knowing what would happen, would you? The sequel to this memoir is Morning at Wellington Square, the story of a single woman's faith in the day-to-day adventure of living and finding in the ordinary the extraordinary.