Name: Never Change
ISBN: 9780743423090

Elizabeth Berg

Resigned to her life alone, unmarried fifty-one-year-old Myra Lipinsky immerses herself in her career as a visiting nurse, in which role she is reunited with Chip Reardon, who has returned to his hometown to live while he deals with an incurable illness.

Never Change

A self-anointed spinster at fifty-one, Myra Lipinski has endured the isolation of her middle life by immersing herself in her career as a visiting nurse. She considers herself reasonably content until Chip Reardon, the too-good-to-be-true golden boy she adored from afar whilst at high school, is assigned to be her new patient. Choosing to forgo invasive treatment for an incurable illness, Chip has returned home from Manhattan to the New England home of his childhood to spend what time he has left. Now, Myra and Chip find themselves engaged in a poignant redefinition of roles, and a complicated dance of memory, ambivalence and longing

Never Change

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