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There are times when the sisters are exasperated by the burden imposed on them.

“Sometimes we had the overwhelming urge to grab our father by the shoulders and shake him until the meaning of his obtuse quotations fell from his mouth like loosened teeth,” they say.

“I’m pregnant,” she blurts out.

Readers may sometimes feel similarly about Ms. Brown but more often appreciate the good sense and good humor that keep her story buoyant.

Meanwhile Rose must to her own self be true when her fiancé, an American academic doing a stint at Oxford, asks her to move to England and give up her Ohio teaching job.

They devote themselves to helping her though treatment, also guiding their Shakespeare-spouting but otherwise ineffectual father through this terrible time.

So the pregnant Cordy is as nauseous as her ailing mother.

Meanwhile Rose must to her own self be true when her fiancé, an American academic doing a stint at Oxford, asks her to move to England and give up her Ohio teaching job.

“Sometimes we had the overwhelming urge to grab our father by the shoulders and shake him until the meaning of his obtuse quotations fell from his mouth like loosened teeth,” they say.

There are times when the sisters are exasperated by the burden imposed on them.

They devote themselves to helping her though treatment, also guiding their Shakespeare-spouting but otherwise ineffectual father through this terrible time.

“Sometimes we had the overwhelming urge to grab our father by the shoulders and shake him until the meaning of his obtuse quotations fell from his mouth like loosened teeth,” they say.

Readers may sometimes feel similarly about Ms. Brown but more often appreciate the good sense and good humor that keep her story buoyant.

There are times when the sisters are exasperated by the burden imposed on them.

“Sometimes we had the overwhelming urge to grab our father by the shoulders and shake him until the meaning of his obtuse quotations fell from his mouth like loosened teeth,” they say.

Or, to quote one of the Weird Sisters quoting you-know-who: “This is a gift that I have; simple, simple.”

Meanwhile Cordy, who has been drifting around the country as a freewheeling hippie, takes a shine to the local coffee shop and the man who runs it.

And suddenly Cordy and her mother share the thought of motherhood as a common bond.

There are times when the sisters are exasperated by the burden imposed on them.

She does have storytelling talent.

But this is a novel that gives Bean not one but two possible suitors right in Barnwell: a married professor whose family is away for the summer, and a clergyman who dresses remarkably like a surfer dude given his profession and the book’s very land-locked setting.

Meanwhile Cordy, who has been drifting around the country as a freewheeling hippie, takes a shine to the local coffee shop and the man who runs it.

Meanwhile Rose must to her own self be true when her fiancé, an American academic doing a stint at Oxford, asks her to move to England and give up her Ohio teaching job.

And suddenly Cordy and her mother share the thought of motherhood as a common bond.

Readers may sometimes feel similarly about Ms. Brown but more often appreciate the good sense and good humor that keep her story buoyant.