Ann Packer

A riveting novel about loyalty and self-knowledge and the conflict between who we want to be to others and who we must be for ourselves....

Bill Blair finds the land by accident, - three wooded acres in a rustic community south of San Francisco. The year is 1954, long before anyone will call this area Silicon Valley....

Liz and Sarabeth were childhood neighbors in the suburbs of Northern California, brought as close as sisters by the suicide of Sarabeth's mother when the girls were just 16....

The Dive from Clausen's Pier begins with a disaster that could happen to anyone, and questions what we know about our deepest allegiances and what we owe those we love.

A wife struggles to make sense of her husband’s sudden disappearance. A mother mourns her teenage son through the music collection he left behind. A woman shepherds her estranged parents through her brother’s wedding and reflects on the year her family collapsed....