Three weeks in Paris Barbara Taylor Bradford

Years after a falling-out ends their friendships, four friends confront unfinished business during a class reunion.

Visitors Anita Brookner

A widow's solitary, complacent existence is upset by family quarrels, secrets exposed, and the advent of a carefree young wanderer.

Bingo Rita Mae Brown

The Hunsenmeir sisters, now in their 80s, compete for the affections of the new man in town.

The vineyard Barbara Delinsky

A woman and her daughter accept an invitation to spend the summer on a vineyard to help the owner, a widow, write her memoir.

Seasons of sun and rain Marjorie Dorner

The relationship between six women who bonded in college is challenged when one turns up at their reunion suffering from the early onset of Alzheimer's.

Lunch at the Piccadilly Clyde Edgerton

A recent arrival at a convalescence center, the irrepressible Lil Olive turns the center upside down when she and friends steal a car and hit the road.

East of the mountains David Guterson

Retired heart surgeon Ben Givens, suffering from terminal colon cancer, embarks on one final, epic hunting odyssey through the American West.

Life estates Shelby Hearon

Childhood friends Sarah and Harriet suddenly find themselves widowed, a tragedy that brings them together again.

Losing Julia Jonathan Hull

From the battlefields of World War I to a present-day nursing home in California, Patrick Delaney describes his long-time love for Julia, the wife of his best friend.

The stone angel Margaret Laurence

Hagar Shipley is stubborn and querulous. At ninety, with her life nearly behind her, she makes a bold last step towards freedom and independence.

A severed wasp Madeleine L'Engle

A pianist in her seventies and retired, discovers new meaning in life when she agrees to give a benefit concert at a Cathedral in New York

School for the blind Dennis McFarland

A man visits his sister at their childhood home in Florida, where he discovers a murder and where both siblings are tormented by memories from the past

The Ladies of Covington send their love Joan A. Medlicott

Three friends decide that the last thing they want to do is live out their lives in a group home, and so they pool their resources and move to North Carolina.

Starting out in the evening Brian Morton

When a graduate student sets out to meet the elderly novelist whose works have changed her life, she meets someone very different from her expectations.

The shell seekers Rosamunde Pilcher

A woman is returning to her country house following a heart attack, and her adult children have varying reactions to the news.

Crossing to safety Wallace Stegner

The story of a lifelong friendship between two couples, this novel looks at the effect of time, illness and lost dreams on marriage and relationships.

The Bonesetter's daughter Amy Tan

Over the course of one difficult year, mother and daughter find what they share through heredity, history, and inexpressible qualities of love.