Looking for book title-about a widow who returns to summer vacation house after husband's death?

The title is something like 10 steps to integration of death into your everyday life. The husband dies of a heart attack and going back to the summer house she is able to integrate the experience into her life.|||The website http://www.bookfinder.com/ should help you locate the title of that book.|||Trumpet by Jackie Kay? The title doesn't sound like your one but its deffinitely about a widow who returns to summer vacation house after husband's death.|||THIRTY YEARS AFTER ALEXANDRA, JANE, AND SUKIE WORKED THEIR BLACK MAGIC ON THEIR ENEMIES IN EASTWICK, RHODE ISLAND, EARNING THE ENMITY OF MANY OF ITS CITIZENS, THEY DECIDE TO RETURN TO EASTWICK FOR A SUMMER VACATION. THE THREE WOMEN, ALL OF WHOM CONJURED UP “IDEAL” HUSBANDS AFTER THEIR EASTWICK EXPERIENCE, HAVE ALL BEEN WIDOWED, AND THEY HAVE NOT HAD MUCH CONTACT WITH EACH OTHER DURING THE THIRTY YEAR INTERIM. ALEXANDRA HAS BEEN A POTTER IN NEW MEXICO, SUKIE HAS BEEN A ROMANCE WRITER LIVING IN CONNECTICUT, AND JANE, FORMERLY A CELLIST, HAS BEEN A SOCIALITE IN BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS. RECONNECTING INITIALLY THROUGH LETTERS AND PHONE CALLS, THE WOMEN HAVE TRAVELED TO INTERNATIONAL DESTINATIONS TOGETHER DURING THE PREVIOUS TWO SUMMERS—FIRST, A TRIP BY ALEXANDRA AND JANE TO EGYPT, AND THE FOLLOWING YEAR A TRIP BY ALL THREE TO CHINA—BUT THEY HAVE NOT SPENT A LONG PERIOD OF TIME TOGETHER, AND THOUGH ALL OF THEM HAVE CHANGED, THEY LOOK FORWARD TO THEIR RETURN TO EASTWICK, PARTLY OUT OF CURIOSITY AND PARTLY OUT OF GUILT. ALEXANDRA, IN PARTICULAR, BELIEVES THAT THEY BEAR FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE DEATH OF JENNY GABRIEL, THE YOUNG WITCH WHO SURPRISED THEM ALL BY MARRYING DARRYL VAN HORNE, THE DEVIL WITH WHOM ALL THREE WOMEN HAD HAD AFFAIRS—AND EXPECTATIONS—THIRTY YEARS BEFORE.

THEIR RETURN TO EASTWICK IS SHOCKING TO ALL ITS INHABITANTS. TAKING THE ONLY SUMMER RENTAL THEY CAN FIND—AT THE FORMER VAN HORNE MANSION, NOW CONDOS--THEY DISCOVER THAT THE TOWN HAS CHANGED, NOT SURPRISINGLY, AND MANY OF THE PEOPLE THEY KNEW THERE ARE NOW DEAD. “EASTWICK’S LOST ITS MESSY CHARM,” JANE NOTES. “IT’S GOTTEN HOMOGENIZED, ALL SMOOTHED OUT—THE CURBS DOWNTOWN ALL FANCY GRANITE, AND THE OLD STONE BANK TWICE THE SIZE IT WAS, LIKE SOME BIG BLAND CANCER GOBBLING UP EVERYTHING. AND THE YOUNGER PEOPLE, THE AGE WE WERE WHEN WE WERE HERE—SSSO TIRESOME…PEOPLE GO AROUND MOURNING THE DEATH OF GOD; IT’S THE DEATH OF SIN THAT BOTHERS ME. WITHOUT SIN, PEOPLE AREN’T PEOPLE ANY MORE, THEY’RE JUST SHEEP.”

BUT SOMETHING ABOUT THOSE “SHEEP” CONTINUES TO BOTHER JANE. “THERE’S SOMETHING UNFRIENDLY OUT THERE,” SHE BELIEVES. WHEN THEY DISCOVER THAT CHRISTOPHER GABRIEL IS IN TOWN, THEY KNOW THAT THIS “DISCIPLE” OF DARRYL VAN HORNE, WHO IS ALSO THE BROTHER OF JENNY GABRIEL, THE YOUNG BRIDE KILLED BY ALEXANDRA, JANE, AND SUKIE, WILL BRING ABOUT A SHOWDOWN THAT MAY COST THEM THEIR LIVES.UPDIKE’S PROSE OFTEN SPARKLES, FILLED WITH THE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE THAT HE HAS MADE A TRADEMARK, AND HIS TONE KEEPS THE READER AMUSED AND INTERESTED IN THE THREE WITCHES. THE DIALOGUE IS OFTEN WOODEN, HOWEVER, AS HE SOMETIMES USES IT TO GIVE A GREAT DEAL OF ESSENTIAL BACKGROUND INFORMATION TO HIS READERS WHILE ATTEMPTING TO ADVANCE THE ACTION. THE FIRST ONE HUNDRED PAGES ARE DEVOTED TO THE WOMEN’S TRIPS TO EGYPT AND CHINA, WHERE THEY (AND THE READER) GET LECTURED ABOUT OTHER BELIEF SYSTEMS CONCERNING MAN’S RELATIONSHIP TO THE WORLD OF DEATH, SUGGESTING SOME SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THESE CIVILIZATIONS FROM THE ANCIENT PAST AND THE WOMEN’S OWN WITCHCRAFT. TWO BRIEF EPISODES OF THEIR MAGICAL POWERS ABROAD PROVIDE AMUSING REMINDERS THAT THESE ARE WITCHES, NOT JUST TOURISTS.

ALEXANDRA, JANE, AND SUKIE DO NOT ARRIVE IN EASTWICK UNTIL MORE THAN ONE-THIRD OF THE BOOK HAS PASSED, HOWEVER, AND THOUGH THEY TRY TO CORRECT THE WRONGS OF THE PAST BY DOING GOOD DEEDS IN THE PRESENT, THEY MUST ALSO “WATCH THEIR BACKS.” THE INTENSITY OF THEIR MALEVOLENCE, WHICH WAS SUCH AN INVOLVING FEATURE OF 1984’S THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK, DISAPPEARS IN THIS BOOK, AND WITH IT MUCH OF THE FUN OF READING. HERE THEY ARE THE POSSIBLE VICTIMS OF ANOTHER’S REVENGE—RELATIVELY PASSIVE CHARACTERS WHO SPEND MORE TIME REMEMBERING THEIR PAST LIVES THAN IN MAKING THE MOST OF THEIR PRESENT LIVES. THE DIFFERENCES IN THEIR PERSONALITIES LEAD THE THREE WOMEN IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS THIS LATE IN THEIR LIVES, AND ONE OF THE WOMEN SHOWS IN GRAPHIC, EXPLICIT DETAIL THAT ADVENTURESOME SEX CAN STILL BE A POWERFUL WEAPON, EVEN FOR THE ELDERLY.

THOSE WHO ENJOYED WITCHES, WITH ITS IMAGINATIVE AND UNAPOLOGETICALLY VENGEFUL CHARACTERS, MAY BE DISAPPOINTED BY THE CHARACTERS’ DESIRE TO MAKE AMENDS AND “BE NICE” IN THIS NOVEL, AND THE AUTHOR’S FOCUS, LATE IN THE BOOK, ON POSSIBLE SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATIONS FOR SOME OF THE WITCHES’ POWERS MAKES THE NOVEL LESS FANTASTIC AND, FRANKLY, MORE PEDESTRIAN.