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Never Change by Elizabeth Berg

Never Change

Elizabeth Berg, Brilliance Audio

Washington Square Press · Print & ebook · May 2, 2002

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FriendshipWomen's FictionLater-Life Romancebook club
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Who it’s for
Elizabeth Berg finds quiet wit and emotional complexity in a connection rekindled under difficult circumstances.
Genres
Later-Life Romance, Friendship, Women's Fiction
Published
Washington Square Press, May 2, 2002

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About this book

A self-anointed spinster at fifty-one, Myra Lipinski is reasonably content with her quiet life, her dog, Frank, and her career as a visiting nurse. But everything changes when Chip Reardon, the golden boy she adored in high school, is assigned as her new patient. Choosing to forgo treatment for an incurable illness, Chip has returned to his New England hometown to spend what time he has left.

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Now, Myra and Chip find themselves engaged in a poignant redefinition of roles, and a complicated dance of memory, ambivalence, and longing.

Tender Complications

Elizabeth Berg finds quiet wit and emotional complexity in a connection rekindled under difficult circumstances.

Come here for

  • A later-life connection shaped by old memories and present-day ambivalence
  • The tender complications of friendship, longing, and caregiving

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  • An intimate, sustained story about memory and changing roles
  • Longing and tenderness without easy answers

Where it sits

Later-Life Romance59%
Women's Fiction36%
Friendship28%

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Authors
Elizabeth Berg, Brilliance Audio
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Published
May 2, 2002
Format
Print & ebook