What Eleanor Chose

The town had an opinion. She had her own. Eleanor Whitmore is fifty years old, recently widowed, and standing at the far end of her own reception when a twenty-three-year-old catches her arm before she falls. It is, by any reasonable measure, a minor incident. The town does not treat it that way. What follows is not a simple love story. It is an examination of what happens when a woman who has been thoroughly understood discovers that the understanding was always slightly wrong. Nathaniel Harrington is reckless, charming, and figuring out what he actually wants. Eleanor is composed, clear-eyed, and carrying the weight of a marriage that was correct in every way except the ones that mattered most. What Eleanor Chose is a novel about the gap between the life that looks right and the life that feels true.