具体描述
The chance wmnlng ot a door prtze-a
cruise to the South Pacific-changed
the life of thirty-eight-year-old Mary
Farr Morgan and those nearest to her.
A thousand uncertainties preceded
that bleak winter morning when she
sailed from San Fraucisco, leaving be-
hind the charming, unrealistic hus-
band she d loved and supported for
fifteen years. When she returned, she
would have made the most important
decision of her life; whether to stay
married to a man she pitied but could
not respect.
During the long days at sea, Mary
reviewed her disappointments and
doubts: the early desire for parental
approval, always withheld; the long-
ing for closeness to a jealous, hostile
sister; the job she loved and the threat
it presented to her marriage. And
through the eyes of her traveling com-
panion, her beloved twenty-one-year-
old niece, Jayne, she came also to a
new outlook on life.
