When sixty-eight-year-old Henry goes out in public with his twenty-eight-year-old wife Kate and their newborn baby Darlan, he proudly wears a T-shirt stating: "I'm the Father." Henry has never been happier in his life; after two failed marriages he is dizzy with love for Kate, for Darlan, and for their lives together in Maine. And despite everyone's comments about their May-December relationship, Kate, too, is filled with wonder and joy about their marriage. In the heady bliss of their love, neither expects Henry's age to interfere so quickly.
With the discovery of Henry's debilitating illness, a quirky new family forms: Day, the companion hired to care for Henry; Cynthia, Henry's neurotic ex-wife; and Nina, his estranged daughter who is older than Kate. At first overcome with conflicts about their various roles, they ultimately find a way to help him and to live with each other.
From Marian Thurm comes an uplifting, often humorous contemporary love story that defies all the rules about age, sex, love, and death - and portrays an unforgetable character: Henry, in love.
ISBN 0-553-34821-3
