The unfortunates
By: Sophie McManus
Publisher: Hutchinson
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780091944544; 9781448151301
Subjects: Rich people; Rare diseases; Heiresses; Families; Family secrets; Mother and child; Fiction
Description: Who knew the rich deserved our pity? CeCe Somner, once known for her cruel wit as much as for her tremendous generosity, is now in opulent decline. Afflicted with a rare disease and touched by mortality for the first time, her gilded, bygone values collide with an unforgiving present. As her troubled, spoiled son George and his outsider wife, Iris, struggle to resolve mounting financial and familial troubles, CeCe must face the Somner dynasty's dark legacy; all three must learn what life beyond the long, shimmering shadow cast by the family's past may become. But when George's secrets culminate in an expected crime, no riches can put things right for the unfortunate Somners.