Lilli's Lost & Found
PREFACE Lilli Braithwaite carried her laptop and a coffee out onto the back deck of her home in Hampton Bays, New York. She was a beautiful-looking woman of sixty. Her hair was grey and she made no vain attempt to hide that from the world. She felt that she had earned every single hair. For all intents and purposes, Lilli was retired from a nearly forty-year career as a professional writer, ‘more or less’ being the operative term. Because Lilli knew that writing wasn’t a job. It was an obsession, a passion and sometimes a refuge. The very fact that she was sitting down and opening up a new file in her laptop was ample testament to the fact that she would never be truly retired. However, there was, for the first time in her experience, nothing that she absolutely had to write about. There was no deadline. There was no income to worry about. She and her life partne...