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Readers who thought The Bridges of Madison County was a romantic book should try this story of honest and enduring love from the author of Talk Before Sleep. The first-person narrative describes an ordinary woman caught up in unusual circumstances. Lainey is a wife/mother/office worker whose life is suddenly changed when her husband is sent into a coma by a freak accident. The only one who believes that he will one day wake up, she visits him daily, bringing him stimulus from everyday life in an attempt to reach him. "I line up the little spice bags all across his chest. All across his University of California T-shirt are requests from the kitchen. Come back, says the curry, the oregano. And me." Lainey is sustained through her ordeal by the support of two special women: Alice, who lives next door, and Evie, the ghost of the woman who lived in Lainey's house in the Forties. A touching and enjoyable read, this novel is romantic without being a romance.

A woman tries to will her husband back to life after a freak accident leaves him in a coma. This was a typical Elizabeth Berg story. She has a way of capturing everyday life with amazing grace and beauty. I enjoyed the interaction between her and Alice as well as between her and the ghost. My only complaint with her writing style is that there is usually a lack of action in the book which can make it slow going.

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