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 @lt;i@gt;The Last Time They Met@lt;/i@gt; and @lt;i@gt;Fortune's Rocks: A Novel@lt;/i@gt; .@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; 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, @lt;i@gt;Yankee Magazine@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; 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, @lt;i@gt;The Boston Sunday Globe@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; When bad things happened to a talented, insightful