Publisher's Synopsis
WHISTLING WOMEN is the first-person telling of the heartbreaking but ultimately triumphant story of Molly Slaughter, a 52-year-old spiritually dead mother of six who has just learned she has terminal cancer. As she and her abusive husband Jeffrey spend the weekend at their beach house, she doesn't tell him of her chilling diagnosis, instead spends the time quietly ruminating on her past dwelling especially on a love affair she had when she was 15 and making preparations to die When a CAT scan she has the following Monday reveals there has been a misdiagnosis and the cancer is operable after all, Molly seizes her second chance and sets about building a new life. Determined to be the writer she has always wanted to be, she leaves Jeffrey forever, thus setting in motion a journey to redemption and a long-lost love that draws readers along to share in the passionate, deeply moving experience. WHISTLING WOMEN is a hymn to abused women."
