Roller coaster...of love

In the fourth young adult novel by Alexandra Coutts – a regular contributor to this magazine – we find teenager Tam rebelling against her parents and running off to marry her musician boyfriend. His inconvenient death sends her reeling back home to attend a support group where...well, you know how it is, anything might happen in a support group. (Farrar Straus Giroux)

In a sentimental mood

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and...John Lennon in his tighty-whities? Susan Branch, creator of a dozen richly illustrated Heart of the Home books, has done it again. For her legion of fans, this prequel to her previous memoir, A Fine Romance, fills in the missing pieces between “a geranium-colored house in California” and “the right side of the rabbit hole,” AKA the Vineyard. (Spring Street Publishing)