Books by Lois Cahall

Some lessons we learn at school; some we learn from experience. But there are some life lessons that only others can teach us.Two women meet every Friday morning at eleven o''clock at a cemetery. One is grieving over the tragic and early death of her mother. The other, mourning the loss of her daughter, shepherds the younger woman through the stages of grief. Together they come to understand what it means to live in a world full of joy and sadness, how death is an intrinsic part of life and how love stays with us forever.Court of the Myrtles is a tender and wise, funny and sad story about grief, loss and acceptance, and about the people we might meet on the other side.

A screwball comedy with a heart. Thelma & Louise go to Europe. A revenge on midlife crisis.Plan A: We grow up, get married, have babies, white picket fence. Plan B: Mortgages, marriages, mistresses, divorce, my kids, his kids, stepkids, blended families. College tuition. Empty nest. Empty soul.Plan C: Cabernet, passports, jet lag, Ambien, Europe. Who needs reality? Until we realize reality can''t be avoided. And truth is, we don''t want to avoid it.We are a nation of underdogs - a society of hope. Plan C is accepting life as it comes, with no plan at all.Once upon a time there was a divorced, single mother named Libby Crockett, living and working her fingers to the bone on Cape Cod. Her Plan A had failed, and now she dreamed of a new life and a new love -- her Plan B. And Plan B worked! It brought her to glamorous New York to a new man, a new life...and his expensive ex, his out-of-control kids, and the biggest recession in 70 years. Was this really what Libby had been dreaming of? Maybe it was time for Plan C...