Open House

This is an okay book written by Elizabeth Berg. Sam Morrow’s husband has left her, and now she must strive to reconstruct a life for herself and her 11-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. A new friend also suggests she get a job. In order to emerge from grief and the past, she has to learn how to make her own happiness.

There is a 2003 television movie based on the novel starring Christine Lahti and Daniel Baldwin.