Open House - Elizabeth Berg

You are bending over the dryer, pulling out the still-warm sheets, and the knowledge walks up your backbone.
You stare at the man you love and you are staring at nothing; he is gone before he is gone.'When Samantha Morrow's husband leaves her and her eleven-year-old son she is faced with the terrifying prospect of having to recreate her whole life. She struggles to find a way until she opens her house to a series of lodgers.
In their eccentric ways each of them helps her to see herself.
But their help alone isn't enough.
Then she meets King, and Samantha begins to feel that things are looking up.