Aunt Crete's Emancipation

For thirty years, Aunt Crete has lived in the shadows of her own family, tending to others with no one to tend to her. She is the unappreciated relative, the one whose needs come last, whose presence is assumed but never celebrated. Then her nephew Donald Grant arrives from the West wealthy, forthright, and outraged at how his aunt has been treated. He sees what no one in her household will: a woman of worth, imprisoned by duty and deference. What follows is both a liberation and a test: can Aunt Crete actually accept the happiness she's always denied herself? Can she leave behind the family that diminished her? Hill writes with gentle wit and deep feeling about the small tragedies of self-sacrifice and the radical act of choosing oneself at last.