The Brennans are an Irish/American family, with three sons and one daughter, living in New York. The oldest son, Denny, is in partnership with close family friend, Kale, in Brennan’s, an Irish-style pub, and they are preparing to open another pub at Mamaroneck on the Long Island Sound.
When the book opens Sunday, the daughter of the family, has been in a car accident in Los Angeles where she has been living for the last five years. Denny comes to pick Sunday up and take her back to New York to recover from the accident and that is where the story starts and the secrets that have been part of the family’s past begin to unravel and shape the way forward.
Although the family matriarch, Maura, has passed away, her insistence on creating a perfect family in the eyes of the world and her disappointment in her husband and children in not meeting her expectations which have set the course for all of their lives still hangs over them. When someone appears who wishes them harm that is when the family’s secrets have to surface and be shared and when a new secret comes into being.
The Brennan siblings, their father, Mickey, and their lifelong friend, Kale, are true-to-life characters and what made this story so easily readable for me was that I genuinely cared what happened to them all and how their lives were to be resolved.
This is an interesting, dramatic, well written story and I hope Tracey Lange will go on to write more.
Published by Macmillan
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