![]() Ella adjusts to life in a new apartment and answers every call on her phone, hoping her daughter will reach out one day. Ella Burke delivers morning newspapers and works at a bridal shop to fill her days while she anxiously awaits news-any piece of information-about her missing daughter. ![]() Now, just months after Cat's death, Chuck finds that he can't let go of her things-her favorite towel, the sketchbooks in her desk drawer-as he struggles to pack for a trip he can't imagine taking without her. ![]() Chuck Ayers used to look forward to nothing so much as his annual trip to Hilton Head with his wife, Cat-that yearly taste of relaxation they'd become accustomed to in retirement, after a lifetime of working and raising two children. Set in a close-knit Pennsylvania suburb in the grip of winter, A Quiet Life follows three people grappling with loss and finding a tender wisdom in their grief. From the author of A Little Hope- a Read with Jenna Bonus Pick-comes an enormously powerful and life-affirming novel about three individuals whose lives intersect in unforeseen ways. ![]()
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