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The Good Child
Paperback
Historical FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9780994503299
Publisher: Karadie Publishing
Published: Nov 15 2021
Pages: 454
Weight: 1.46
Height: 1.01 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
'A mother can't wipe away years of love. I just can't do it, no matter what he's done.'
The Good Child is a compelling story of two very different women: 72-year-old Lucille, with a hidden tragic past, and 30-year-old Quin, whose ambitions lost her everything.
Everyone hates Lucille for what her son Tom, did and she can't blame them. He'll probably go to jail. She's to blame too - she ignored all of his faults - perhaps even encouraged them. She never wanted him in the first place. But that wasn't her first mistake. She'd ignored her grandmother's warning that if she married the man she loved, her life would be a disaster. She was right too.
Now Lucille's on a train with no money and no home. All she's left with is a blind overprotective love for her son, but even that is now pushed to the brink as she comes to terms with her actions and those of Tom's.
Quin worked for Tom and knows exactly what he's done because she helped him do it - she turned a blind eye to the corners he cut and the lies he told. Now, she's lost everything and it's her own fault. She wants revenge.
Then she meets Lucille on the train and finds herself facing her past and her future.
Rich in detail and epic in scope, The Good Child is a powerful novel of emotional and financial resilience, loss and unexpected friendship.
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