Mrs. Nash’s Ashes

Mrs. Nash’s Ashes

Author: Sarah Adler Listening Length: 9h 22m

A starry-eyed romantic, a cynical writer, and (the ashes of) an elderly woman take the road trip of a lifetime that just might upend everything they believe about true love. Millicent Watts-Cohen is on a mission. When she promised her elderly best friend that she’d reunite her with the woman she fell in love with near...

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Key West, Florida, December 1944

Key West, Florida

Rain beat its tattoo against the roof, a persistent rhythm that made Rose’s limbs feel loose and her brain sleepy.

She and Elsie worked similar schedules, which seemed like supreme luck until Elsie confessed with an uncharacteristically sheepish grin that she’d arranged it that way.

The two women had taken to spending most of their free time together at the beach where they first met, lounging in the sun and staring up at the planes flying low overhead until Elsie’s restlessness inevitably steered them into the ocean’s waves.