Blessings

By Anna Quindlen

A sentimental novel with not very many surprises. Did not like it very much, so do not have much to say.

It is set on an estate named Blessings. Charles 'Skip' Cuddy has just been released from prison and goes to work on the estate as a caretaker. One morning he finds a baby at the bottom of the stairs. The baby, a girl he decides to name Faith, is at first kept secret from his employer, Lydia Blessing, but having no experience in the fine art of fatherhood she soon finds out. However, for reasons of her own, she decides to help Skip with the baby.

Faith becomes the start of a new life for Skip and the catalyst for the softening of the rigid Lydia. A novel of how the secrets of the past affect the future when in the end Faith is returned to her birthmother and Lydia dies.