Overview

Lang Eldridge, the protagonist in ""Making Arrangements,"" is a cancer-surviving baby boomer whose 'perfect arrangements' go awry after her fit husband drops dead instead of her. A loner, her life has revolved around her husband and her granddaughter, and close friendships between women are something she doesn't quite understand. How do they become so familiar with each other, knowing where the spices are kept in each other's kitchens? Prepared for her own death, Lang has arranged every detail of her husband's life without her, from her decadent caramel cakes with thick creamy icing in the freezer for his first birthday without her to love letters for Christmas, Father's Day, their anniversary... Reeling as a widow, she struggles with impending foreclosure on her beloved historic family estate, a conniving tennis star son, a grammar-butchering fashion plate who decides they are best friends, an unlikely romance and a mute stray dog. She discovers the secret her husband carried to his grave could ruin her life. If she lets it. A novel of funerals, flowers, friendship and forgiveness, themes of family, and its definition, are central to Making Arrangements. Can family be formed when there is no bloodline, and how does that happen? This story is told with ""delightfully sassy writing with rich characters you'll want to slap!"" according to one reviewer.

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"""If you are looking for a mixture of heartbreak and humor delve into Ferris Robinson's Making Arrangements, a beautifully written family drama sprinkled with scenes of hilarity."" Amazon reviewer ""In just a few pages, Ferris Robinson gives the reader an honest and believable sense of Lang, the main character in the novel. Lang exemplifies the traits of the perfect hero- familiar and unfamiliar, likeable yet flawed, ordinary and extraordinary. I was immediately hooked by the opening lines: ""Lang leaned on her shovel and tried to slow her breath. She should be packing for their celebratory trip for her one-year remission, not trying to divide a wayward clump of Lenten roses,"" and by the storyline in which Lang is unexpectedly handed a huge problem from the get-go. Bottom line... I stayed up much too late several nights because I couldn't quit reading Making Arrangements."" Amazon reviewer ""Thoroughly enjoyed Ferris Robinson's authentic southern characters and almost tactile sense of enjoyment in plants and food and her granddaughter."" Amazon reviewer ""I literally could not put this down! I read a lot and many different types. I would put it up there with some of the best sellers that I have recently read. "" Girl On A Train"" comes to mind. It lends itself to a series and I hope that the author will continue. The characters are well written to the point that they feel like family. Unpredictable twists and turns that keep the reader's interest. Well worth the time but my suggestion would be to read on a weekend or a night when you don't need much sleep because it will keep you captivated."" Amazon reviewer ""What an absolutely delightful story. Although it is centred around a main character who is going through the dual suffering of having cancer and losing her husband unexpectedly, overall this was a story that made me feel good about appreciating life and the people in it. There were a few moments in the story that made me a bit tearful, but really this book is very much a joy to read."" Amazon reviewer ""Reading Ferris's descriptions of the way people experience their lives is, without exception, an affirmation of the way we experience our own. I have long been a fan of her works of non-fiction. After reading ""Making Arrangements"" there is no doubt that her gifts and talents lend themselves beautifully to the world of fiction"" Amazon reviewer"

If you are looking for a mixture of heartbreak and humor delve into Ferris Robinson's Making Arrangements, a beautifully written family drama sprinkled with scenes of hilarity. Amazon reviewer In just a few pages, Ferris Robinson gives the reader an honest and believable sense of Lang, the main character in the novel. Lang exemplifies the traits of the perfect hero- familiar and unfamiliar, likeable yet flawed, ordinary and extraordinary. I was immediately hooked by the opening lines: Lang leaned on her shovel and tried to slow her breath. She should be packing for their celebratory trip for her one-year remission, not trying to divide a wayward clump of Lenten roses, and by the storyline in which Lang is unexpectedly handed a huge problem from the get-go. Bottom line... I stayed up much too late several nights because I couldn't quit reading Making Arrangements. Amazon reviewer Thoroughly enjoyed Ferris Robinson's authentic southern characters and almost tactile sense of enjoyment in plants and food and her granddaughter. Amazon reviewer I literally could not put this down! I read a lot and many different types. I would put it up there with some of the best sellers that I have recently read. Girl On A Train comes to mind. It lends itself to a series and I hope that the author will continue. The characters are well written to the point that they feel like family. Unpredictable twists and turns that keep the reader's interest. Well worth the time but my suggestion would be to read on a weekend or a night when you don't need much sleep because it will keep you captivated. Amazon reviewer What an absolutely delightful story. Although it is centred around a main character who is going through the dual suffering of having cancer and losing her husband unexpectedly, overall this was a story that made me feel good about appreciating life and the people in it. There were a few moments in the story that made me a bit tearful, but really this book is very much a joy to read. Amazon reviewer Reading Ferris's descriptions of the way people experience their lives is, without exception, an affirmation of the way we experience our own. I have long been a fan of her works of non-fiction. After reading Making Arrangements there is no doubt that her gifts and talents lend themselves beautifully to the world of fiction Amazon reviewer

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Ferris Robinson lives in a beautiful part of East Tennessee (very similar to Barrington in Making Arrangements) with her husband and two dogs. The mother of three grown sons, she delights in the fact that her dogs obey her - more or less. A former columnist and feature writer for the Chattanooga News Free Press, she is now the editor of the Lookout Mountain Mirror and the Signal Mountain Mirror. Her work has been published numerous times in the Christian Science Monitor and the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. She is a columnist at chattanoogan.com. The author of several cookbooks, including Never Trust a Hungry cook, which she wrote in college, Simplify Supper and the Gorgeless Gourmet's Cookbook, Ferris and her husband were featured on the cover of Woman's World magazine 20 years ago. Promoting her easy but healthy recipes in the Gorgeless Gourment's Cookbook, she made numerous television appearances and sold 10,000 copies of th book, pre-Internet. Her other books include Dogs and Love - Sixteen Stories of Fidelity and Authentic Log Homes, featuring hand-hewn log homes. Making Arrangements is her first novel. Mrs. Kelly's work is in the permanent collection of the Hunter Museum in Chattanooga, the Whitney Museum in NYC, Emory University in Atlanta, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and is in numerous corporate and private collections throughout the country. She has exhibited and won awards in various competitive shows, including Art in the Embassies Program, Hunter Museum exhibits, the Central South exhibit, Spectrum, Chattanooga Arts Festival, Savannah Arts Festival and the Callaway Gardens exhibit. She was the 2005 winner of the Grande Prix Chatonniere in France and in 2014 was awarded the DAR's national award, ""The American Heritage Award for Women in the Arts."" Her work was included in the 2014 Women Painting Women exhibit. Her work has been featured in various galleries and museums, including the Hunter Museum of Art, the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, Cheekwood Museum in Nashville, Tenn., Tennessee Wesleyan College in Athens, Tenn., the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC through the Art in the Embassies Program, the Southern College of Seventh Day Adventists in Collegedale, Tenn., Abstein Gallery in Atlanta, B&B Gallery in NYC, Alan Avery Art Company in Atlanta, Ga., and Woodall Fine Arts in Ooltewah, Tenn.

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