Abide with me
Subtitle: a novel
By: Elizabeth Strout.
Edition: 1st large print ed.
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 434
Subjects: Clergy -- Fiction; Widowers -- Fiction; Bereavement -- Fiction; Mute persons -- Fiction; Single fathers -- Fiction; Fathers and daughters -- Fiction; Large type books; New England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In the small town of West Annett, Maine in the 1950's, the minister Tyler Caskey is still grieving two years after the death of his wife. One daughter, Jeannie is sent upstate to live with his overbearing mother. The other Katherine has become antisocial. Tyler turns to his housekeeper Connie Hatch when her teacher suggests Katherine speak to the school counselor. This starts gossip about Katherine's stability and Tyler's possible affair with the housekeeper.