Jude Calohan has been keeping his head down for years. In the quiet town of Bower Bliss, Texas, he has tried to be a good man, a good father, tried not to think too much about his relationship with his own father ... and yet despite this, in the gentle autumn of an uneventful year, Jude Calohan soon finds his relationship with both his eldest child and his own identity as a father called into question.<br><br>Amidst the sleepy apple groves of small town America, will Jude Calohan be able to keep his family together while his eldest child Charlie discovers the confidence to make one of the biggest choices of their young life?

Love Among Strangers

She thought she could hear the kitchen radio for a moment, and then it went silent, the sound of the back door opening and closing.


“Sylvia Plath,” Charlie answered at last, and then sighed, abruptly changing the subject. “Do you remember when Dad used to play the piano?”


“Yes, I remember your father’s piano playing quite well.”


“Why did he stop?” Charlie asked, suddenly painfully earnest of expression.


Marta looked troubled for a moment, reaching up to brush a curl of dark hair behind her ear


“I don’t think he ever intended to stop,” she said.


Chapter 13