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Ellen Baker

KEEPING THE HOUSE

A newly wed housewife in the conformist 1950s falls in love with a grand abandoned house in town, and begins to unravel a family’s dark secrets. When Dolly Magnuson moves to 1950s Pine Rapids, Wisconsin, she discovers all too soon that making marriage work is harder than it looks in the pages of the Ladies’ Home Journal. As Dolly adapts to her new life—keeping the house, supporting her husband’s career, fretting about dinner menus...

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KEEPING THE HOUSE has been selected as July 2007 pick by Midwest Connections the marketing program of Midwest Booksellers Association.

 

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