Open With Care
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With the departure of the bride and groom many of the older guests left. A limo had been hired to take some of them to the New Haven hotels where they planned to stay for the night. Others, like David Wallace and Sister Margaret, went directly to the station. They had rested in comfort in their rooms, but with the bridal couple gone, it seemed pointless to spend the night at the inn. “What did you think of the groom?” David asked as they settled in their seats on the train. “Am I wrong in thinking that he was under a lot of strain most of the time?” Sister Margaret smiled. (David Wallace was as gossipy as an old woman, she thought.) She, too, had been aware of the tension in both bride and groom. “Aren’t all grooms under a strain? Sometimes they look like calves that’ve been roped in a rodeo – helpless and scared stiff. The brides are the stars in a wedding. The grooms are merely fashion accessories.” David laughed. “For a nun, you sound worldly wise indeed.” There was nothing that Sister detested more than the expression, “for a nun.” “Would you be shocked if I, as a nun, kicked off my shoes? My feet are killing me.” She closed her eyes and was soon asleep.
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About the Book
Tina Appleton Bishop’s third novel, like her other stories, is set in Connecticut. Much conflict and angst festers beneath the serene surface of Christmas Cove, a popular tourist mecca operated by Larry and Sophie Bayers. Jennifer, their adopted daughter, had longed to search for her birth parents. Bruno, the bi-racial adopted son of the Bayers’ friend, Anna Lagano, was driven by an equal compulsion. Both were warned against the perils in their quests. Hence the title “Open with Care.” In a further complication, Max Lerner, a suave and scheming guest at the inn, was determined to exploit Anna’s artistic talents, and for the Bayers there was the ever-looming threat that artificial trees might bankrupt their Christmas tree business. The novel’s climax is the trial scene, the end of a plot that includes theft, romance, suspicion, heroism and a mysterious death.
About the Author
Though New York born (in her grandfather’s house on Washington Square), since 1946 Tina Appleton Bishop has been happily living in Greenwich, Connecticut, where she has been engaged in magazine, newspaper and volunteer work. At the age of 91, having learned to use a computer, she published her first novel, Fisherman’s Creek in 2008. A year later, her second novel of suspense, The Heiress of Newfield, was published. Her third book, Open with Care, like the first two is also set in Connecticut. Writing comes easily to her as a member of a family, the Appletons, who were early American publishers and editors. Her two sons contributed cover design and editing.