The Fiction Class

On paper, Arabella Hicks is more than qualified to teach a weekly fiction class on New York's Upper West Side: She's an author; she's passionate about books; she's even named after the heroine in a Georgette Heyer novel. So why do her students seem so difficult? And why can't she find an ending to the novel she's been working on for seven years? Arabella's beginning to suspect that it's because her mother, who's in a nursing home, is driving her insane.