Abi Oliver

It’s February, 1964 George Baxter, proprietor of Chalk Hill Antiques, has recently lost his wife Winifred. George is a mild mannered, likable sort of man, with a lifetime of loneliness facing him every time he looks in the mirror. It isn’t that he is without friends as the cronies off his wife are determined that he not be left behind. Poor George just can’t face any of it.

He has his antique business and his basset hound, Monty. He isn’t a saint and he isn’t strong. He has been known to find solace in the arms of his neighbors. He needs more than he gets most of the time. He wants “someone he can love to the depth of his soul” and to be loved equally. What could be easier? What could be more difficult? George is about to find out.

Told with wit and charm this is the best of this genre of writing. “Gain-loss, up-down, beginning-end.”

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