The Night Billy Was Born

About the Book

The Night Billy Was Born and Other Love Stories is about love at all ages: the passionate affair of two teenagers; the delicate relationships between a brother and sister, their cousin, and their adotptive aunt and her dead husband; the obsession of a young man in his early twenties for an older woman; the love of a husband and his pregnant wife under straitened circumstances; an extra-marital affair between a divorced, unemployed writer and a beautiful married woman he meets in Alcoholics Anonymous; the unexpected love of a married woman in her fifties for another woman; the sentimental journey of an old man whose wife has recently died to find the love he left behind in war-torn England after World War II; and the loneliness of a woman nearing ninety who has no one, not even her husband, who is non compos mentis, to share her grief with over the death of her son.

About the Author

Joseph Cowley is the author of the novels Home by Seven, The Chrysanthemum Garden, Dust Be My Destiny, The House on Huntington Hill, and Landscape With Figures; the plays The Stargazers, Twin Bill (two plays), and A Jury of His Peers; and The Executive Strategist: An Armchair Guide to Scientific Decision-Making.