"A Widow for a Year" by John Irving was made into a movie, "The Door in the Floor", directed by Tod Williams in 2004. In this story we meet the daughter, Ruth, who is returning to her old home, her father's assistant, Edward, whose worship of her father keeps him there long after he should have fled, her mother, Marion, a woman trapped and Ted, her father. They are all writers, in their own way and for their own reasons. Although the story is about Ruth and her change of heart, all the characters are elaborately created and true to themselves.