num_pages: 325
description: This entrancing and deeply searching novel will touch a nerve in every reader. Delia Grinstead, 40-year-old mother of three almost-grown children, on a sudden impulse, walks away from her marriage, hitches a ride into the unknown, and settles in a strange new town. But soon after she begins her impersonal, unencumbered new life, fresh responsibilities inevitably accumulate.
language: English
title: Ladder Of Years
titlecomplete: Ladder Of Years
genres: Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Womens, Womens Fiction, Literature, Adult, Family, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 17444
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf