After a 30-year career in neonatal intensive care nursing, Brenda Sheridan, a 1989 Boston College graduate, wrote her first novel, A Better Sense of Being. In Sheridan’s story, Iris Macdonald moves from Manhattan to the Berkshires in the wake of her boyfriend’s death. There, she takes up painting and hears voices in her head. Could she be a medium? A Better Sense of Being is about healing, hope, and the magic that occurs when we allow ourselves to believe.