About the novel
On the eve of her fiftieth birthday, Dana Buckman seemed to have it all - a successful career, a brilliant husband, and two loving daughters who are building lives of their own. But when she dies in a freak accident, her daughters discover that their mother was not the person they thought they knew. She had kept secrets from them all, secrets that revealed sorrow and loss, as well as the sacrifices she made for their happiness. Spanning five generations of women, “Waiting by the Gate” tells the timeless story of the bond between mothers and daughters, and of love that transcends time.