Suzanne Strempek Shea, winner of the 2000 New England Book Award for Fiction, is the author of Selling the Lite of Heaven, Hoopi Shoopi Donna, Lily of the Valley, and Around Again. She lives and writes in Bondsville, Massachusetts.
This is one of those books that changes your life forever. I am
deeply grateful that I got a chance to read it, and I will
recommend it to everyone I know.--Anita Shreve, author of The Last
Time They Met and Fortune's Rocks: A Novel .
"Her struggle with the realities of breast cancer-and its
treatment-is a story of fear, courage, loneliness, and redemption.
It is one of the most moving and important books ever written about
the extraordinary pressures the disease places not only on the
victim, but on family and friends as well."--Michael Carlton,
Yankee Magazine
"Songs from a Lead-Lined Room contains passages of unaffected
loveliness, in particular Shea's reflections on her working-class
hometown in central Massachusetts, a setting cozily familiar from
her novels."--Amanda Heller, The Boston Sunday Globe
"When bad things happened to a talented, insightful, witty reporter
and virtuoso novelist, her notes delivered a brilliant silver
lining. I'm not the same person I was before reading Songs from a
Lead-Lined Room, Suzanne Strempek Shea's brave, honest,
enthralling, darkly funny story. I couldn't put it down, and I'll
never forget its lessons about friendship and good intentions gone
awry. I've loved many books, but never before have I come away with
the conviction that I've just read the one that's been missing from
the world."--Elinor Lipman, author of The Inn at Lake Devine and
The Dearly Departed
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