Cloudy Jewel

Julia Cloud is forty-three years old and ready to vanish. After her mother's death, she faces a gray future as a dependent relative in her sister's house, her own life quietly over. Then her young nephew and niece appear at the train station, college-bound and in desperate need of someone to call home. What follows is one woman's improbable journey from resigned invisibility to becoming the heart of a young family. Grace Livingston Hill writes with quiet conviction about the lives society overlooks: middle-aged women deemed past their usefulness, whose capacity for love has gone unnoticed and unsought. The prose carries the gentle warmth of early twentieth-century Christian fiction, but never devolves into preachiness. This is a story about discovering you are worth more than you believed, and that happiness can arrive exactly when you've stopped looking for it. For readers who want their hope undiluted and their happy endings earned.