During the Great Depression, rural Vermont suffers along with the rest of the country, and Henry Talcott, with only occasional work as a butcher, is reduced to moving into a tent on the edge of Black Pond with his two children. Their beautiful but unreliable mother has left them, and Henry is devastated by her desertion. He hasn't told Thomas or Margaret why she left—or if she will return.
Told from twelve-year-old Thomas's perspective, The Lost Mother follows this shattered family as a wealthy neighbor begins to woo the children as companions for her strange, housebound son, and Henry weighs an unexpected proposition, the consequences of which may cost him everything.
I was born in Meriden, Connecticut in 1943 and raised in Rutland, Vermont with three younger brothers. I was educated at Mount Saint Joseph Academy in Rutland, the University of Vermont, and the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. I am married to Michael W. Morris, an attorney, and I’m the mother of five children, and grandmother of twelve. I live on the North Shore in Massachusetts.
