Thanks so much to NetGalley, GP Puntnam's Sons, and Elisabeth Hyde for the opportunity to read her novel - a really good story with intriguing, realistic characters.
The story takes place over one weekend when Murray invites his 3 children to his New Hampshire farm. Ruth is a married attorney from Washington DC; George is a nurse who lives just an hour away; and Lizzie is a professor at a college nearby her dad's home. Besides having the family all together, he has an ulterior motive to have Ruth talk to Lizzie about her relationship with a much older married man. With all that, he just wants his kids to get along for the weekend. We all know that sibling relationships take on a life of their own and how far do we really get from this ingrained childhood patterns? Ruth is still in charge and wants to control everything; George has always taken care of Lizzie to the detriment that he's scared of another relationship like that; and Lizzie lives up to her reputation as being the wild one
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Intermixed with the weekend's happenings, including Lizzie possibly contemplating a jail stay because of an incident with her boyfriend involving the loss of the family copy of the Fannie Farmer Cookbook, the backstory of the family as well as the mom and other brother Daniel, come out.
Just an enjoyable read with lots of family dynamics to ponder. Would be great for a book club - I'm sure lots of sibling stories would come out of that discussion!
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