Waterbury Winter: A Novel

Barnaby Brown is a young widower who longs to move to California and reawaken his long-lost early life as an artist. He faces several obstacles, including heavy drinking and long-term neglect of his ancestral home, but re-discovers the value of old friendships and latent talents and finds the courage to consider a second chance at love.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 264 pages
Publication date: 03 May 2022
Publisher: She Writes Press

Barnaby Brown has had enough of the freezing winters, insurmountable debt, dead-end job, and solitary life as a young widower with no one but his beloved parrot Popsicle. He yearns to move to California and reawaken his long-lost early life as an artist. But new troubles come in threes. His ancient car crashes into a snowbank. Popsicle escapes through a window carelessly left open.

A New York gallery owner offers to represent Barnaby's paintings—but is he on the up-and-up? All of it serves to shock Barnaby into confronting how low he has sunk, and he vows—again and again—to change. He has a few obstacles, starting with his heavy drinking and long-term neglect of his ancestral home. As he takes steps toward a better life, he re-discovers the value of old friendships and latent talents seen in new light, and finds the courage to consider a second chance at love. Rejoining the mainstream of life presents several startling mysteries he must unravel, with a few mortifying but enlightening stumbles.

A heart-warming novel about ordinary people reclaiming their dormant potential, Waterbury Winter celebrates the restorative value of art and the joy to be found in keeping promises.

Weight: 350g
Dimension: 215 x 140 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781647423414