Christina Chapman and her husband Cornelius, both past seventy, are "summer people"-people who come to rural New England for the summer months and go home to the city when the cold weather comes. This year, however, Christina and Cornelius have decided to stay on.
May Sarton's Willard is a small town in the rocky hills of New Hampshire, a place that attracts "the untameable, the wild, the gentle." As Sarton takes us into the lives of the people who live there, we encounter a rich tapestry of characters and relationships. In the center are the deep, prickly friendship between Christina, an old Bostonian, and Ellen, the daughter of a farmer, and the unfolding process by which Christina and her husband "come into their own" in their marriage and become winter people at last.
- ISBN10 0704344181
- ISBN13 9780704344181
- Publish Date 26 January 1995 (first published 17 March 1980)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 13 November 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint The Women's Press Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 352
- Language English