Blessings by Belva Plain

Blessings by Belva Plain This book is USED (not new) Condition: Good - Format: Paperback Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, , Dimensions: 179mm / 111mm, pages SKU: 3344x - We use NZ Post overnight for delivery so please allow 1-5 days for delivery - If you would like to see more photos of the book, ask a question and we'll add them Book Description: In this book Anna Quindlen delivers a lovely story of strength, support, and love. Late one night, a teenaged couple abandons their newborn baby at the garage door of Blessings, an estate inhabited by the elderly Lydia Blessing and her young handyman, Skip Cuddy.....and thus set off a chain of events that will propel both of these characters on a journey of discovery. Skip, who lives over the garage and finds the foundling, will discover unexpected depths of feelings for this little one, whom he names Faith. He also discovers the nurture of which he is capable--and what the tribulations of fatherhood can be. This baby gives Skip's life a structure and purpose that it never had before. Lydia discovers that perhaps doing what is expected is not always the good thing to do....and questions what the right thing to do really is. She has lived in the past for so long, thinking about her family's many secrets, but this baby brings her into the present with a welcome jolt. Despite trying to keep Faith's presence a secret, Lydia finds out that Skip has taken on the role of father to this baby, and the three of them become an unlikely sort of family. Quindlen shows us how a family is not necessarily comprised of those related by blood, but can be a unit made up of people who need, support, and care for each other. Together, Skip and Lydia find unexpected joy in Faith and find resources within themselves of which they were unaware. These two characters, of such different backgrounds and ages, also allow the author to tell the same story in two very different ways.