{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Eileen Goudge - THE HOUSE ON MOUNTAIN LAUREL LANE","description":"In Eileen Goudge\u2019s latest novel \u2014 The House on Mountain Laurel Lane, a widow and mom of two struggles to let go of the past and embrace the future in a powerful novel about friendship, love, and taking risks.   Ever since her husband Sean\u2019s death, Jo Myers just can\u2019t move on. Until she receives a video Sean made during his final days, urging her to find happiness after he\u2019s gone. Jolted from her rut, she embarks on a journey forward.   Her first step is buying a house she and her daughters can call home. Framed by the snowcapped peaks of the Sierra Nevada, it\u2019s the very house she and Sean dreamed of owning together one day. It comes with a kindly and elderly resident lodger and an opportunity to make new memories. Jo even dips her toes into the dating pool. With the support of her friends, who call themselves the Tattooed Ladies, she is determined to honor her husband\u2019s last wish. Even as reality comes crashing down again.   Eileen and I discuss how the plot for this novel came to her. And how, to some extent, it parallels her own life. We also discuss why her numerous novels\u2014at times funny, at other times, heartbreaking\u2014resonate with her readers worldwide.   On bookshelves now! (c) 2026 Josie Brown ","author_name":"Author Provocateur with Josie Brown","author_url":"https:\/\/sites.libsyn.com\/515033","html":"