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    Sarah's Choice: with a little help from Tuscany
    A Plane Tree in Provence
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    A Plane Tree in Provence Series

    By Arlene Rains Graber

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    About this series

    This novel is the third in the A Plane Tree in Provence Series. The women have arrive back home ready to assume life for the better.

    Sarah Stafford, of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, is a famed artist whose paintings hang in galleries as well as prestigious homes throughout the country. Her days are spent painting at the beach or in her home studio. Although she rarely contributes to housework, preparing meals, or taking care of her teen-age sons, it is a good and comfortable life, thanks to her husband, Clay, who doesn't complain and willingly takes complete charge of his business as well as the chores at home. From appearances, Sarah and her family lead a storybook life, yet trouble is brewing deep within Sarah’s conscience.
    A brief affair has left her guilt ridden. Raoul, the man with whom she had an affair re-enters her life in a most bizarre manner and disrupts everything. Faced with the possibility she might lose her family if the truth were known, Sarah ignores the inevitable for as long as she can until events force her to make a crucial choice. Will she choose truth or deceit?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArlene Rains Graber
    Release dateJul 1, 1990
    Sarah's Choice: with a little help from Tuscany
    A Plane Tree in Provence

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      A Plane Tree in Provence
      A Plane Tree in Provence

      A Plane Tree in Provence

      Arlene Rains Graber
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      Five women, four forty years old, and one matron of sixty-one take a holiday to France anxious to escape their robotic lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Wendy, the travel agent, Penny, owner of a needlework shop, Sarah, accomplished artist, Vernie, executive director of the Portland Symphony, and Rose, who is a recent widow all wind their way through Provence with adventures conflicts, and a generous portion of food and wine. Each evening they gather around the large plane tree at their renter farmhouse to vent and give advice to each other. Conflicts emerge when Sarah has an affair, the rest of the group blasts her behavior, and Wendy's constant critical comments to Rose almost tear the group apart. By the end of the trip, each return home recharged to explore hidden dreams and change their lives.

      Five women, four forty years old, and one matron of sixty-one take a holiday to France anxious to escape their robotic lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Wendy, the travel agent, Penny, owner of a needlework shop, Sarah, accomplished artist, Vernie, executive director of the Portland Symphony, and Rose, who is a recent widow all wind their way through Provence with adventures conflicts, and a generous portion of food and wine. Each evening they gather around the large plane tree at their renter farmhouse to vent and give advice to each other. Conflicts emerge when Sarah has an affair, the rest of the group blasts her behavior, and Wendy's constant critical comments to Rose almost tear the group apart. By the end of the trip, each return home recharged to explore hidden dreams and change their lives.

    • Sarah's Choice: with a little help from Tuscany
      Sarah's Choice: with a little help from Tuscany

      Sarah's Choice: with a little help from Tuscany

      Arlene Rains Graber
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      This novel is the third in the A Plane Tree in Provence Series. The women have arrive back home ready to assume life for the better. Sarah Stafford, of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, is a famed artist whose paintings hang in galleries as well as prestigious homes throughout the country. Her days are spent painting at the beach or in her home studio. Although she rarely contributes to housework, preparing meals, or taking care of her teen-age sons, it is a good and comfortable life, thanks to her husband, Clay, who doesn't complain and willingly takes complete charge of his business as well as the chores at home. From appearances, Sarah and her family lead a storybook life, yet trouble is brewing deep within Sarah’s conscience. A brief affair has left her guilt ridden. Raoul, the man with whom she had an affair re-enters her life in a most bizarre manner and disrupts everything. Faced with the possibility she might lose her family if the truth were known, Sarah ignores the inevitable for as long as she can until events force her to make a crucial choice. Will she choose truth or deceit?

      This novel is the third in the A Plane Tree in Provence Series. The women have arrive back home ready to assume life for the better. Sarah Stafford, of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, is a famed artist whose paintings hang in galleries as well as prestigious homes throughout the country. Her days are spent painting at the beach or in her home studio. Although she rarely contributes to housework, preparing meals, or taking care of her teen-age sons, it is a good and comfortable life, thanks to her husband, Clay, who doesn't complain and willingly takes complete charge of his business as well as the chores at home. From appearances, Sarah and her family lead a storybook life, yet trouble is brewing deep within Sarah’s conscience. A brief affair has left her guilt ridden. Raoul, the man with whom she had an affair re-enters her life in a most bizarre manner and disrupts everything. Faced with the possibility she might lose her family if the truth were known, Sarah ignores the inevitable for as long as she can until events force her to make a crucial choice. Will she choose truth or deceit?

    Author

    Arlene Rains Graber

    Arlene Rains Graber is an award winning freelance writer from Wichita, Kansas. Her writing career spans more than thirty-five years with more than 100 articles, essays, and devotionals published in numerous newspapers, magazines and periodicals. Books published are listed below. Graber is a retired travel agent who has traveled throughout the world. She is a graduate of the University of Memphis, is an avid scrapbooker, a graduate of Bible Study Fellowship, the proud grandmother of two boys, and has attended Eastminster Presbyterian Church for over thirty-seven years. Books by Arlene Rains Graber are: Devoted to Traveling (a devotional book) was published by AWOC Publishers, A Plane Tree in Provence, (Women's Fiction and First Place winner in the Kansas Authors Club Contest) Angel on My Shoulder (Christian Fiction) The Cape Elizabeth Ocean Avenue Society (second on the Plane Tree series) was released in 2012, Sarah's Choice - With a little help from Tuscany was published in 2014, and The "Casting" of Wendy Holcomb, published in 2017. Graber's newest non-fiction book, Lessons from Maine was released in 2016. It is a memoir of the author's annual retreats to Maine.

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