Mrs. Lydia Blessing This is Me

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1. 1. The Spokesman-Review.com - Family oriented

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   Published on: 10/18/2002   Last Visited: 10/18/2002

   The book begins with a teenage couple abandoning their newborn at the 200-acre country estate of Lydia Blessing, the richest woman in town.
   
   But the baby is found not by the elderly Mrs. Blessing, but by Skip Cuddy, the young groundskeeper who lives over the garage. The discovery leads him on a journey of concealment as he tries to hide the baby, whom he names Faith and desperately wants to keep.
   
   When Quindlen started her journalism career as a reporter at The New York Post, she did not imagine that her life would turn out the way it has. It's not the novelist part that surprises her; writing fiction was always her goal. It's becoming a mother. Having children was something she didn't think she would want.
   
   "When I was in my 20s ... I thought it would cramp my style. And I was right. It really does," she said. "But once we had one it was just so unbelievably cool."