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to be so lovely
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781764581301
Publisher: Midge Muir
Published: Apr 22 2026
Pages: 362
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
What does it mean to grieve someone who is still alive?
Felicity is known for her eyeliner, her style, and the careful confidence that suggests she has everything under control. But when her mother's illness pulls her back into a life she has long kept at a distance, that image begins to fracture.
Their relationship has never been simple-two women bound by blood and separated by years of silence. Now, Felicity is forced into a closeness she never asked for, learning how to exist beside someone she has spent her life avoiding.
As responsibility begins to replace resentment, guilt quietly takes hold, asking her to confront what it means to care for a person who has always been a source of pain.
To Be So Lovely inhabits the uneasy distance between love and obligation, where no choice feels clean and every act of care carries its own quiet grief.
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