For My Daughters
by Barbara Delinsky
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A mother invites her three grown daughters to her country house. The daughters are very different and hostile towards each other. Annette is a steady housewife with five children, Leah is a two-time divorcee and Caroline is a liberated lawyer. On arrival they find the mother gone and what follows is what the mother hoped for, the enforced proximity leads to peace between them.Tags
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For My Daughters by Barbara Delinsky
Socialite Virginia St. Clair shows an interest in the gardener, Will Cray as he goes about his work, She's married to Daniel and has a duty to him.
As years go by she sends her 3 girls a letter asking them to help her move into her new house in Maine.
Attorney Carolyn has just finished up a big case and is free to travel.
Annette has 5 children and a loving husband.
Lea's life is full and empty.
Star's Inn is her mothers and wants to spend time with them.
Love the setting and the very detailed descriptions of the waterfront.
Starts out with her interest in the gardener, Will Cray as he goes about his work. She's married to Daniel and has had to leave him.
Intriguing book about friendship and relationships not show more only between mother and daughters but their love interests. show less
Socialite Virginia St. Clair shows an interest in the gardener, Will Cray as he goes about his work, She's married to Daniel and has a duty to him.
As years go by she sends her 3 girls a letter asking them to help her move into her new house in Maine.
Attorney Carolyn has just finished up a big case and is free to travel.
Annette has 5 children and a loving husband.
Lea's life is full and empty.
Star's Inn is her mothers and wants to spend time with them.
Love the setting and the very detailed descriptions of the waterfront.
Starts out with her interest in the gardener, Will Cray as he goes about his work. She's married to Daniel and has had to leave him.
Intriguing book about friendship and relationships not show more only between mother and daughters but their love interests. show less
Very enjoyable book about family relationships, miscommunications and new understandings.
An unemotional, distant mother has 3 daughters who specialize in 3 things: family, lawyering, and partying. She invites them all to a house she just bought in Maine and each go, thinking she was the only one she asked. Then they stayed on because she wasn’t there yet and gradually began mending fences in their relationships. There was a handsome gardener that became involved and some surprising developments before the mother actually came; told her daughters why she had bought the house -- because years before she had had an affair with the gardener based on mutual attraction, but left with her husband and coped by becoming non-emotional. They all mended fences, but mom died the next day and the youngest finally married the first show more gardener’s son who was the present one. show less
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Barbara Delinsky was born on August 9, 1945 in suburban Boston. She received a B.A. in psychology from Tufts University and an M.A. in sociology from Boston College. After graduate school, she worked as a researcher with the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. After her first child was born, she worked as a show more photographer and reporter for the Belmont Herald. She has written more than 60 novels including Shades of Grace, Coast Road, While My Sister Sleeps and Not My Daughter. Some of her novels have been made into television movies including Three Wishes starring Valerie Bertinelli and A Woman's Place starring Lorraine Bracco. She wrote the nonfiction book Uplift: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors. She has also written under the pen names Bonnie Drake and Billie Douglass. Barbara's novels, Blueprints and Sweet Salt Air, made the New York Times bestseller list in 2015. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- For My Daughters
- Original title
- For My Daughters
- Original publication date
- 1994-05
- People/Characters
- Caroline St. Clair; Annette St. Clair; Leah St. Clair; Virginia St. Clair
- Dedication
- To Karen and Amy for fighting
To Steve, Eric, Andrew, and Jeremy for loving.
For readers everywhere for believing, as I do. - First words
- My last glimpse of him was as forbidden as all that had gone before, but no less precious.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)But it's very much here, leading us home.
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