

Meanwhile, Spence’s estranged son from his first marriage has come back into their lives.

One day, feeling especially isolated, Pru meets a man, and the possibility of new romance blooms. With their daughter, Sarah, away at medical school, Pru must struggle on her own to care for him. The Great Man can’t concentrate he falls asleep reading The New York Review of Books. Thirty years later, something is wrong with Spence. But when she falls in love with and marries Spence Robin, her hotshot young Shakespeare professor, her life takes a turn she couldn’t have anticipated.

