A Small Idea

Books produced in small quantities and marketed locally can support independent bookstores, help emerging writers, and benefit local non-profit organizations.

If you like novels about the joys and complexities of small town New England life, and would like to support the Dakin Pioneer Valley Humane Society, buy Some Measure of Happiness today.

It is available at Amherst Books,World's Eye, Booklink, Broadside, and the Bookmill, or online.

To Order:

Using PayPal or a credit card, go to the Services Page or the Contacts Page

or

send a check for $17.95 (includes media mail shipping costs).

To:

Singing Dog Press

PO box 321

Montague, MA 01351

Include:

Your name

Mailing address

wickswords@yahoo.com

413-834-2247)

Keeping it local

Singing Dog Press

Montague, MA

Author                

Lee Wicks            Montague

Book Design

Robert Moorhead   Deerfield

Cover Art

James Whitbeck   Greenfield

Printing

Tiger Press           Northampton

Editorial

Janet MacFadyen  Shutesbury

Proofreading

Jessica Day          Leyden

With a the profits going to

The Dakin Pioneer Humane Society

Some Measure of Happiness

A Novel

Lee Wicks c

In the aftermath of a tragedy Jack Walker leaves his forty acre homestead and takes up residence in the small village of Cooper Hill, Vermont. In Cooper Hill,  the tidy white homes appear tranquil  from a distance and conceal the heartbroken family of a teenage runaway, a bitter postmistress, a woman from the city trying to live out a fantasy of country living, a young couple attempting to raise the perfect child, an entrepreneurial couple on the verge of financial collapse, a cat with attitude, and an otherwise peaceful dog who terrorizes the paper boy.

In the course of a year, set against community rituals that bind them together, and the war in Iraq that turns old friends against one another, Jack Walker and the people of Cooper Hill strive to achieve some measure of happiness while they deal with diminishing expectations.