The House on Belle Isle: And Other Stories

Written by Carrie Brown, Sweet Briar College faculty member. Each of these seven stories presents a different authentic world - a divorcee's NYC apartment, a widow's Maryland neighborhood, an equestrian camp for girls in England, a residential seaside resort in Rhode Island, a remote mountain village in Spain, a tidewater Virginia inn that flourished post-Civil War, and an unusual mortuary in Maine.  The reader is taken inside seven private places by a guide whose gentle insights are indeed profound.