The New York Times bestselling author of
Falling presents a warm, wise, and wonderfully vivid
novel about a mother who asks her three estranged daughters
to come home to help her end her life.
Ronni Sunshine left London for Hollywood to become a
beautiful, charismatic star of the silver screen. But at
home, she was a narcissistic, disinterested mother who
alienated her three daughters.
As soon as possible, tomboy Nell fled her mother’s
overbearing presence to work on a farm and find her own way
in the world as a single mother. The target of her mother’s
criticism, Meredith never felt good enough, thin enough,
pretty enough. Her life took her to London—and into the arms
of a man whom she may not even love. And Lizzy, the
youngest, more like Ronni than any of them, seemed to have
it easy, using her drive and ambition to build a culinary
career to rival her mother’s fame, while her marriage
crumbled around her.
But now the Sunshine sisters are together again, called home
by Ronni, who has learned that she has a serious disease and
needs her daughters to fulfill her final wishes. And though
Nell, Meredith, and Lizzy have never been close, their
mother’s illness draws them together to confront the old
jealousies and secret fears that have threatened to tear
these sisters apart. As they face the loss of their mother,
they will discover if blood might be thicker than water
after all...