His new novel is the story of Felicia, who, after her husband's death, begins a diary to keep him in touch with what is going on in the world of the living. He had been a dominant man, at the center of his self-effacing and submissive wife's life, and he proves a difficult influence to bury. As the pages of the diary unfold, the dynamics of their forty-year marriage are gradually revealed. Relationships with family and friends must be renewed by Felicia as an independent woman no longer in her husband's shadow. It is a masterfully told tale of justice, late awakenings, and the fulfillment of long-suppressed impulses and desires.