Description: In life, Polly Baymiller was a fierce and passionate woman -- ardently in love with her husband and her three sets of twins. Why should she be anything different in death?

Polly's Ghost begins when Polly, an ethereal, glimpses her nine-year-old son Tip for the first time since the night she died giving birth to him. He's the one baby she never got to hold, to kiss, or to guide from one uncertain moment to the next deliberate one; and it is Tip she has missed most fervently in the years she has spent learning to be a ghost. Love, Polly has come to realize, is not a state of mind but a way of being. One must act on the feeling in order to make it count. And act Polly does, taking bold steps from "above" to make sure that Tip has the courage and curiosity he needs to make his own precious way on Earth. Meanwhile Polly, drawn into and out of the earthly stories of the unfolding lives of other people, follows her own path away from a tormented ghostliness toward an abundant peace.

A novel that has the entrancing, uplifting appeal of such movies as It's a Wonderful Life and Ghost, Polly's Ghost explores both the unknowable hereafter and transcendent love between mother and child. It is a stunning successor to Life Before Death, which The Boston Globe hailed as "breathtakingly beautiful" and Newsday called "beguiling...ebullient... life-affirming."

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