Hardcover WITH DUST JACKET IN VERY GOOD CONDITION.... 1st & 2nd page stapped with bookshop detailes. WILL COMBINE BOOKS WHERE POSSIBLE TO SAVE POSTAGE. A Widow for One Year is a 1998 novel by American writer John Irving, the ninth of his novels to be published. The first third of the novel was adapted into the film The Door in the Floor in 2004.