When popular daytime TV host and uber-feminist Erica Flanagan skewers a young "trad wife" influencer on live TV, she soon finds herself on a forced sabbatical, searching for a project to keep her busy. Without a single domestic bone in her body, Erica embarks on a blogging project determined to prove that domesticity is a con. But her domestic adventure turns into a quagmire of personal discovery —and what she discovers is herself. Erica Flanagan, uber-feminist and one of the stars of the afternoon television talk show, has honed her on-air bitch persona to perfection. Or so she thought. But Erica is becoming increasingly impatient with the new breed of millennial women who seem to be regressing into homemaker mode. When she finally blows her stack on live television, her boss puts her on a six-month sabbatical. In all her fifty-three years on the planet, workaholic Erica has never had time on her hands. Erica needs a project....

Life may not offer do-overs, but it might offer second chances.Dr. Claire Barrett has it all. At least, it seems that way to everyone but Claire. A successful doctor with two almost grown and successful children, an international reputation as one of the world's finest pediatric surgeons, Claire at age fifty is as beautiful, stylish and driven as ever. She prides herself in making the best decisions to have gotten her where she is today. She did it all herself and from her home base in St. John's, Newfoundland. But there is one decision that rankles. She should never have allowed Peter O'Brien to get away. She should never have agreed to the divorce. Was it her only mistake? Now she has a plan to fix that. She will win him back.Eliza Houlihan Cohen, a New Yorker by way of Canada's east coast, is a successful cookbook author. After years of putting up with her philandering husband Jake and his whining mother, she has finally broken free. And now...

A love letter to the island of Newfoundland, this enchanting and funny story could only have been written by a "come-from-away."On the island of Newfoundland at the edge of North America, if you're not an islander, you're a "come-from-away." And if you were born here and left never to return, according to Nora Houlihan, who is about to turn one hundred, you're the worst kind of CFA. But she's about to have a birthday party and demands that her family return. Before the party, though, she wants them to see what they're missing by living in appalling places like Toronto and New York. So she arranges a cross-island tour for them.Under the careful eye of their mysterious tour guide, Gordie O'Brien, Nora's two children, both in their seventies themselves, and their assorted middle-aged children are packed into a truck for a week to put aside their petty family squabbles and their prissy food fetishes, their designer handbags and their champagne tastes...

After surviving the Titanic Disaster at age 12, Frannie Phillips made her choices in life. Then her choices made her. You don't get the life you deserve. You get the life you create. In The Year I Made 12 Dresses, Charlotte (Charlie) Hudson thought she'd learned all about her late mother until in Kat's Kosmic Blues, she discovered that there was much more to her mother, Kat Hudson than she could ever have imagined. Could there be any more family secrets? Charlie thinks not until she discovers her great-grandmother, Frannie Phillips's stash of eight couture dresses and a grainy photograph that seems to suggest that Frannie survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. Just when Charlie thinks there can be no more skeletons n her family's closet, she is drawn into Frannie's incredible life. After 12-year-old Frannie Phillips survives the sinking of the Titanic, surely, she could be forgiven if she expects her parents to indulge her one dream―to...

Recent widow Charlotte "Charlie" Hudson embarks on a journey of discovery only to find there may be no line between reality and imagination—and no such thing as time. What does it mean to live a life? To react to whatever life throws at you? Or is it to write your own story? Create Your own life. These were the questions Charlotte "Charlie" Hudson began to face as she tried to shed the cloak of widowhood she had been wearing for over a year. To begin again. Charlie's dilemma was that to begin again, she knew she would finally have to say goodbye. And that was her problem. With the help of her daughter, Frankie and her sister, Evelyn, Charlie takes the first step by agreeing to travel to Mallorca to take a course. The focus of the course is making replica Chanel jackets, something Charlie has long wanted to accomplish. She soon learns that there is much more to the course than making jackets. Charlie finds...