Waterbury Winter

By Linda Stewart Henley

Barnaby Brown has had enough of freezing winters, insurmountable debt, a dead-end job, and his solitary life as a young widower with no one but his beloved parrot Popsicle. He yearns to move to California and reawaken his long-lost early life as an artist. But new troubles come in threes. His ancient car crashes into a snowbank. Popsicle escapes through a window carelessly left open.

A New York gallery owner offers to represent Barnaby's paintings--but is he on the up-and-up? All of it serves to shock Barnaby into confronting how low he has sunk, and he vows--again and again--to change. He has a few obstacles, starting with his heavy drinking and long-term neglect of his ancestral home. As he takes steps toward a better life, he re-discovers the value of old friendships and latent talents seen in new light, and finds the courage to consider a second chance at love. Rejoining the mainstream of life presents several startling mysteries he must unravel, with a few mortifying but enlightening stumbles.

A heart-warming novel about ordinary people reclaiming their dormant potential, Waterbury Winter celebrates the restorative value of art and the joy to be found in keeping promises.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1647423414
• ISBN13: 9781647423414
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"