The Absent Woman - Kindle Fiction

The Absent Woman 
by Marlene Lee 

"I couldn't put down The Absent Woman. I relished every scene, every word. It's one of the most compelling novels that I've read...”
Ella Leffland, author of Rumors of Peace and The Knight, Death, and the Devil.

“Lee spins a yarn both poetic and full of slowly gathering mystery . . . an illuminating insight into how we often try to untangle someone else's story to make sense of our own realities.”
Jill Renae Hicks
Columbia Daily Tribune

"Using her gift for dialogue and description, the author effectively draws her readers to turn the pages of the book and follow Virginia as she tries to look for herself."
5* review from Reader's Favorite

Virginia Johnstone doesn't need a rest, she needs a change; not comfort, but purpose. Divorced, and a visitor in her children's lives, she decides to leave Seattle and spend three months in the harbor town of Hilliard. There, on the edge of Puget Sound, she sublets rooms in an old hotel, rooms belonging to a woman who has vanished without explanation. In search of someone who can take her piano-playing to the next level, Virginia encounters Twilah Chan, an inspiring teacher and disturbing presence. Twilah's son, Greg, an exciting but also disturbing presence, re-awakens Virginia's romantic life. When she discovers a connection between the absent woman of the old hotel, Twilah, and Greg, she must decide whether to pursue the uncertain course she has set for herself or return to the safety of Seattle.

In a novel which is both elegiac and passionate, insightful and wryly humorous, Marlene Lee explores the need for change and the emotional consequences of leaving an old life in order to embrace a new one.

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