Family Life Stories

Dear Friends,

I’m pleased to announce that my second novel, SEA ESCAPE is in bookstores. I’ve been a family life expert for more than twenty years, and there’s so much about my work that inspires my fictional stories. Yet this novel is deeply personal.

I wrote SEA ESCAPE after my own mother became ill in 2000 and I found a cache of love letters written to her by my father. For years after his death, my mother struggled with prolonged grief disorder, while I tried to make sense of her sadness.

In writing my second novel, I believe I’ve found a way. The actual love letters written by my father have been woven into an imagined story exploring the impact of broken parental relationships on young children.

Laura Martinez is wedged in the middle place, grappling with her busy life as a nurse, wife, and devoted mom to Henry and Claire, when her estranged mother, Helen, suffers a devastating stroke.

In a desperate attempt to lure her mother into choosing life, Laura goes to Sea Escape, the pristine beach home that Helen took refuge in when her carefully crafted life unraveled years ago, after the death of her beloved husband, Joseph. There, Laura hunts for the legendary love letters her father wrote to her mother, believing the beauty and sway of her father’s words have the power to heal.

Laura reads the letters bedside to her mother–a woman who once spoke the language of fabric; of Peony Sky in Jade and Paradise Garden Sage–but who can’t or won’t speak to her now. As Laura delves deeper into her tangled family history, each letter revealing patchwork details of her parents’ marriage, she finds a common thread. A secret, mother and daughter unknowingly share.

I hope you enjoy this novel–dedicated to my parents–about the ties that bind mothers and daughters.  Please forward this announcement to someone you know who might enjoy it too.

Best, Lynne Griffin

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