Healing Roots. The Garden Club, #2

When autumn arrives in Riverside, Ohio, four women face their first winter without the lives they once knew. Diane still talks to her dead husband while planning next spring's garden. Lauren battles panic attacks as everyone asks when she'll try again for a baby. Carol waits by her phone for the daughter who won't speak to her. Beth discovers that seeing her ex-husband means nothing--because she's finally found herself. Together, they built a garden from an abandoned lot.
Now they must tend the roots they've grown in themselves. As temperatures drop and the garden goes dormant, these unlikely friends discover that healing isn't linear. It comes in waves--therapy sessions that crack you open, medication that steadies the chaos, coffee dates that terrify you, and holidays spent with people who truly see you. Through group counseling with Dr. Mandy Samuels, each woman confronts what she's been avoiding: the control that pushes daughters away, the grief that masquerades as anxiety, the fear of being alone, and the courage it takes to let go. Winter is long.
The work is hard. But when you have women who show up--who pull you off the bathroom floor, who bring coffee to frozen gardens, who remind you that spring always comes--you learn that the strongest roots grow in the darkest soil. From the author of women's fiction that speaks to the heart, Healing Roots is a story about found family, the messy middle of grief, and the gardens we grow within ourselves when everything else has fallen apart. Perfect for readers who loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, and The Authenticity Project.