After reading some "heavier" books, this one was a welcome change. Joy Harkness is a college professor at Columbia in New York City. She likes the big city and how easy it is to keep your life private and to stay out of other people's lives. Her apartment has a "heart-stopping view of the Hudson" - but then she explains that you can only see it by hanging out the window! There isn't much space in the apartment and she has to walk up four flights of stairs - which was easier when she moved in 15 years ago.
Then one day she gets recruited by Amherst College in Massachusetts. A real estate agent named Donna was recommended to Joy. I loved the part where they met. Donna is wearing a yellow warm-up suit and Joy is dressed in a New York appropriate outfit in the wild colors of dark gray and black. Let the culture shock begin. Joy had sold her apartment in four days for an astonishing amount of money, so Donna was eager to show her some beautiful houses. And the house that Joy sees and can't get out of her mind? Of course it is an old Victorian which needs to be fixed up.
This book is one about new beginnings - a house which gets her involved with "the only guy who can save the house" , a job with colleagues that share a little more than Joy is used to knowing and a life that seems like - well, a second chance!
A nice easy read with enjoyable characters.
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