Lost & Found in Lunenburg

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"Rose Ainsworth, the affable, slightly neurotic protagonist in Jane Doucet’s debut novel, The Pregnant Pause, is back in this candid, compelling look at midlife love, loss and new beginnings. Rose and Jim, her husband of almost twenty years, have been living happily in Halifax, Nova Scotia, since moving from Toronto more than a decade earlier. With satisfying careers, two sweet rescue mutts, and Rose’s family nearby, life is golden—until one day, Rose’s world unexpectedly collapses. Widowed suddenly soon after her fiftieth birthday, Rose is addled by grief. Could that be why only three months later, she decides to buy her friend Wendy Hebb’s sex shop in the tiny coastal community of Lunenburg? As Rose hurriedly rents her house and puts her belongings in storage, her older sister, Daisy, worries that Rose is running away—from the home that she and Jim built together, and the constant reminders of what she’s lost. When Rose lands in Lunenburg in a furnished condo with a year’s lease, a colourful cast of local characters keeps her from drowning in grief: a long-lost quirky cousin with a health secret that Rose is determined to crack; a busybody widow in her seventies who keeps pushing Rose to join a bereavement-support group; and a handsome, single restaurant owner who stirs feelings in Rose she tries hard to stifle. As the condo’s lease creeps closer to its expiration date, Rose is faced with a dilemma—should she continue carving out her new life in Lunenburg or return to her Halifax home? Jane Doucet’s trademark humour, along with the return of familiar characters from The Pregnant Pause and her second novel, Fishnets & Fantasies, make Lost & Found in Lunenburg feel like a long-overdue catch-up with old friends."-- Provided by publisher