Product Description

In 1998, Kari West and Noelle Quinn gave readers their hard–won but hope–filled insights in When He Leaves. Responding to ongoing reader requests, HarvestHouse is re–releasing this compelling, one–of–a–kind book in a new edition.

How can a woman cope...survive...and even thrive again after divorce? There are no easy answers. Kari West and Noelle Quinn offer their experience and companionship to the reader along a road she never wanted to walk as they urge her to “hang on!” and...

• admit to the all–but–unbearable pain
• start to grasp God’s love and acceptance at a new level
• rebuild life...and learn to laugh and love again

Readers will return again and again to the deeply practical and heartfelt counsel offered by Kari and Noelle.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #346398 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-01
• Released on: 2005-04-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Ingram
Kari West and Noelle Quinn emerged from the furnace of unwanted divorce to find new lives and possibilities. When He Leaves is warm and transparent, offering a woman-to-woman feel for kindred souls abandoned within Christian marriage.

About the Author
Kari West is a writer and speaker living in Northern California. She is remarried and the mother of a grown daughter.

Noelle Quinn is an editor and book developer living among ponderosa pines in Oregon. She is the mother of three grown daughters.

Customer Reviews

Soothing to the battered soul
I found this book at the public library...what a Godsend! I decided just a couple of chapters into it...I have to buy a copy of my own. Easy to read in small doses, I laughed, cried, and healed through every page. I will read it over and over, as long as I need to. I've recommended it to friends, even to a Marriage & Family Counselor friend of mine, for her clients who are suffering through a divorce. Down to earth and straight from God, these womens are a blessing.

When He Leaves: Choosing to Live, Love , and Laugh Again
A friend of mine from church gave me this book a few years ago. I was in shock. My spouse had just shared with me he was in love with another woman. I was scared and felt all alone. The book helped me tremedously. I experienced many of the same feelings and thoughts that Kari and Noelle shared in the book. It is a book that gives us some affirmation to those horrid feelings one has when they find out their spouse has betrayed them. The authors wrote the book with their heart, spirit and soul. One feels a connection and I appreciate the references to our connection with God. I would recommend this to anyone who is greiving the loss of a spouse thorugh divorce. I have read it through several times and still are growing and learning.

Better, not Bitter
Many people say life is about choices, but when Christians experience an unwanted
divorce, they must accept the consequences of another's choice. Writing under pen
names, two women who know the agony of such rejection write with candor and
compassion about starting over. "When He Leaves" is aptly subtitled "Choosing to Live,
Love, and Laugh Again." As the co-authors tell the heartbreaking details of their separate
journeys to divorce, they also share the little steps of hope as they saw God's compassion
in their circumstances. Sometimes people hesitate to give books to those who hurt; this is
one that should be given, with a heart-felt hug that says, "I care."