Happier Here With You : A Novel

A widowed mother finds the recipe for happiness when she visits a long-lost relative in a heart-lifting novel about family, food, and second chances. Widowed and overworked, museum curator and food historian Maggie Brodbeck struggles to spend quality time with her five-year-old daughter, Hannah.Fueled by on-the-go meals, she doesn’t even have time to breathe, let alone pursue personal happiness.Then, out of the blue, Maggie receives an invitation from her estranged great-aunt Alice to visit her Wisconsin farm.The time has come, Magpie. Desperate for a break, for herself and for Hannah, Maggie finds Rosehill Farm to be a revelation.In the enigmatic Alice, Maggie finds a kindred spirit.Whether baking together or just looking at the stars, they share a natural rhythm.The calming pace of country living is made even sweeter when Maggie meets the charismatic Brady, a local pastry chef. Then Maggie opens her aunt’s treasured box of generations-old recipes and discovers the surprising threads of her heroic family history.The recipes not only shed light on the past, but reconnect Maggie to her love of cooking and to a life of contentment close to her heart—and back to herself.