I Am Agatha by Nancy Foley

A darkly funny debut about a late-in-life lesbian relationship and smalltown shenanigans.
 
Agatha and Alice are in love.   Agatha, a celebrated painter and even more famous recluse, finally wants to settle down.

But Alice has dementia, and a lingering fixation on her late daughter, who's buried in her backyard. In an ideal world, Agatha would move Alice - and her daughter's remains, if necessary - into her isolated house in the mesa high above their New Mexico town. But Alice's son wants her safely shut up in an assisted living facility and her property deeds in his pocket.

As unlikely allies come to her aid and secrets are unearthed that should have stayed below ground, Agatha engages in a ferocious battle of wills with the townsfolk who stand between her and happily ever after.
 
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'Agatha is a narrator for all the ages, telling us her story in a powerful voice - lush, sharp, blunt and lyrical all at once.  And that extraordinary ending!  Once I finished, I had to turn back to the beginning to reread'  - Angie Kim
 
'This tale of an artist in New Mexico is itself a wise and gorgeous work of art.  Foley makes us see old age afresh, as a time of passion and risk'  - Clare Pollard