"What remains of the seasons of a woman's life? Isadora, now an old woman living in hospice care, looks back on her life and how intimately intertwined it was with that of the big, sprawling house where she spent almost her entire existence. Her memories of childhood and beyond return to her, season by season: from the games and warmth of summer and the back-to-school days of autumn, to the crisp, cold days of winter--days of loneliness and death--and to spring's promise of renewal, and of the return to the house that meant so much to her. In this lyrical and beguiling novel, Isadora guides readers through the maze of her memory, like a painter; affording each season and each relationship her passionate attention"--