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Daddy's Girl
Paperback
Series: The Morley Star
ISBN13: 9781997516156
Publisher: Crimson Hill Books
Published: Jun 18 2026
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Daddy's Girl, the arrival of a mysterious guest at the Star family's seaside bed-and-breakfast forces long-buried secrets about Morley's father into the open. As the community's perceptions collide with private realities, Morley is forced to confront the true meaning of home, belonging, and parental absence.
This emotionally layered volume provides librarians and readers with a profound examination of:
- Absent Parents & Reconciliation: The complicated process of understanding the flaws of the adults around us.
- Navigating Serious Illness: The impact of a parent enduring ongoing cancer treatment as experienced by a child narrator, her siblings and family.
- Community Interdependence: How small-town structures can both intensify personal crises and offer profound avenues for healing.
Written with a calm realism that avoids sentimentality while preserving a core of warmth and hope, Daddy's Girl continues the Seabright chronicle with a story that will deeply satisfy readers of literary women's fiction and stories centered on believable, grounded human relationships.
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