Used Book – From the Other Side of the Ocean, Robin Pilcher

Ever since his wife died of cancer after a long agony, David Corstorphine has been avoiding his children and the family distillery. Retired to the heart of the Scottish countryside, he seeks in gardening the peace of old, forever gone. And even his last business trip to the United States turns out to be an ordeal. Yet it is there that his life will take a turn. All it will take is an advertisement - "Gardener, handyman wanted" - for David to disappear into anonymity and create a new destiny for himself on a vast estate in Long Island. But what can he, the stranger, the broken man, do for Jennifer, his employer, consumed by work to the point of creating her own unhappiness? And for Benji, Jennifer's son, a solitary and virtually orphaned little boy? Could it be that they need his friendship, just as he needs theirs? That by bringing a smile back to their faces, he might find his own again? That by loving, he might rediscover love? But in the meantime, back across the ocean, he is being awaited... With this powerful and moving novel, Robin Pilcher shows how much each life, as long as one is willing to open one's eyes, can count on new springs.