My first novel was published when I was 44, and I have been in this lane ever since. I finally concluded I would rather live with rejection then regret.
But it wasn't until I was 42 that I summoned the courage to try writing a novel even though I had wanted to do so for a long time. My first professional writing gig was working for a newspaper, a job I started in my 30s. I’ve since learned though that you can do a job you love and it may even take you to the mat at times but you can still love it. I didn't want writing to turn into that kind of drudgery. I also I stupidly thought that if I did it make writing my job I would tire of it because I saw too many people coming home from the work week tired, longing for the weekend, and dreading Mondays. I didn't think of it as anything I would do professionally. In my teen and early adult years I thought my writing was just for fun, as kind of a therapy for me, more recreational than anything else. The fates of these three women intertwine on the eve of the devastating earthquake, thrusting them onto a perilous journey that will test their resiliency and resolve and, ultimately, their belief that love can overcome fear.From the acclaimed author of The Last Year of the War and As Bright as Heaven comes a gripping novel about the bonds of friendship and mother love, and the power of female solidarity.I have always loved to write, even when I was a little girl. The second is hundreds of miles away in the American Southwest, grieving the loss of everything she once loved. The first, pretty and pregnant, is standing on her doorstep. Sophie discovers hidden ties to two other women. Then one early-spring evening, a stranger at the door sets in motion a transforming chain of events. Sophie quickly develops deep affection for Kat, Martin's silent five-year-old daughter, but Martin's odd behavior leaves her with the uneasy feeling that something about her newfound situation isn't right. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly handsome. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed.Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno.
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