# A Widow For One Year

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- Book: [A Widow For One Year](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-irving/a-widow-for-one-year) ([A Widow For One Year.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-irving/a-widow-for-one-year.md))
- Authors: [John Irving](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-irving)
- Publisher: transworld_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4811-185-5
- Published: 2012-05-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her parents' bedroom.' This is the story of Ruth Cole. It is told in three parts: on Long Island, in the summer of 1958, when she is only four; in 1990, when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career; and in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother. She's also about to fall in love for the first time...