Review: good read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 6, 2013
An Irish teenager escapes an abusive father to run away with her boyfriend. They emigrate to America where they have a child and marry. The husband is a ne'er-do-well, and the mother leaves him to raise the child on her own. She meets a handsome, charismatic  younger man, but never introduces him to her daughter. When the husband shows up, she feels she has to break up with the young man.The daughter goes through a very rebellious adolescence and becomes grossly overweight. She also seems to have inherited the nasty personality of her grandfather. Despite this, she meets an older man and falls in love, but later the man leaves her. The mother then becomes a successful writer.The father back in Ireland is dying, and both mother and daughter go back to take care of him. When he dies, the police are suspicious that his death has been hastened by giving him too much morphine, and daughter is accused.Compelling characters for the most part, but I found it difficult to accept the way the mother let her nasty daughter walk over her. The plot kept me involved, but a couple of things strained credibility. Overall, I thought it was a very good story.