You Could Make This Place Beautiful

Award-winning poet and author Maggie Smith offers a lush, heartrending memoir exploring coming of age in your middle age - an instant New York Times bestseller

In her long-awaited debut memoir, award-winning poet Maggie Smith explores in lyrical vignettes the end of her marriage and the beginning of a surprising new life. It is a story about a mother's fierce and constant love for her children, and a woman's love and regard for herself.

Above all, this memoir is an argument for possibility. Smith reveals how, in the aftermath of loss, we can discover our power and make something new. Something beautiful.