I’m Judy Heath, a professional listener and storyteller. As a psychotherapist, I listen to stories; as an author and playwright, I tell them. 

 

In my private practice, I witness the courage of people every day. Their resiliency is astonishing, but sometimes their humor is equally as surprising. 

 

Nora Bach, the 61-year-old protagonist of my new novel, Moving On Through Mud, is like that. After the unexpected loss of her husband, this former book editor feels stuck in the quirky upstate village to which they retired.

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It’s Birkenstocks meets bling, as the year-round mountain folk are constantly butting heads with the summer residents from the Broadway theater world.

 

Her grown children struggle with their own issues, while her eccentric sister pushes her to get out of her crumbling Victorian and date for the first time in thirty years.

 

Nora could never have imagined joining forces with a Broadway Director, a British rocker, and an unexpected sisterhood to battle against a Walmart being built in their historic village.