After her mother has a heart attack and her husband's lawyer delivers some shocking news, Laurie James finds herself sandwiched between caring for her parents, managing caregivers, raising four daughters, and trying to understand her husband's choices--to keep herself afloat, she seeks therapy, practices yoga, rediscovers nature, and begins to write. Will it be enough to keep her family together?

"A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable women. All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers--the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother Victoria, the infamous eccentricity of her grandmother Vita Sackville-West, her mother's Tory-conventional background. But then Juliet,...