A Widow for One Year by John Irving is $1.99 at Amazon US.
It was partially adapted as the film The Door in the Floor (to not shortchange the story, they only took the first third of the book and filmed that). I highly recommend that movie.
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In A Widow for One Year, we follow Ruth Cole through three of the most pivotal times in her life: from her girlhood on Long Island (in the summer of 1958) through the fall of 1990 (when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career), and at last in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother (and she’s about to fall in love for the first time). Both elegiac and sensual, A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force.
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