All the Lonely People

About the Book

Ruby has just moved into a new neighborhood. She and her husband and daughter must live with her invalid father-in-law until he dies. Ruby hates the house and hates her father-in-law.

But between the letters she writes to her own mother, life goes on in the neighborhood a young mother dies in a sanitarium, a widower pulls a gun on a child; a middle-aged veteran lures young children into his house; a thirteen-year-old boy is shot; an old mother is put into a home. And Ruby has to figure out where she fits into it all.

Will she find happiness and friends? Will her daughter find her own place in this world? And what will happen to all these lonely people?

About the Author

Sharon Costley was born in 1941, in Los Angeles, California, the oldest of six siblings. She married at eighteen; she and her husband have nine children. Sharon has been writing regularly since she was twenty-five years old. This is her first published work.