Starting over as perimenopause symptoms shift the ground
Beginning again rarely arrives as a clean break. Holmes gives Evvie grief, guilt, friendship, financial pressure, and a second chance that develops without pretending the past has disappeared. Perimenopause symptoms can arrive alongside the unsettling realization that an old life still looks settled but no longer feels honest. Its warmth comes from allowing reinvention to be awkward, gradual, and relational. Evvie does not become fearless before moving forward; she learns to tell the truth, accept help, and imagine a future not organized around what she lost. That makes the novel a generous companion for women rebuilding without erasing their earlier lives.
About Linda Holmes
Linda Holmes spent years writing about popular culture before finishing her first novel. She set it in the Maine coast her family visited when she was young, turning a personally cherished landscape into a story about adults carrying grief, history, and second chances.
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