A divorcee mother travels beyond the confines of her life in search of herself. The main character in the novel "The Absent Woman," suffering from an unhappy marriage, leaves her family in Seattle and travels north to live alone, study piano with a gifted musician, and discover the significance of one of the rooms she sublets from the absent woman. In the small fishing town of Hilliard, Washington, at the edge of Puget Sound, Virginia Johnstone learns to live a life quite different from the one she has been accustomed to. In so doing, she retains her relationship with her sons and solves a personal dilemma."
- ISBN10 1909374415
- ISBN13 9781909374416
- Publish Date 4 April 2013
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Holland House Books
- Edition Hardback ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 232
- Language English