Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute – Talia Hibbertġ7. The Taking of Jake Livingston – Ryan DouglassĢ1. We Weren’t Looking to Be Found – Stephanie KuehnĢ7. Only Love Will Break Your Heart – Ed TarkingtonĢ9. This journey, however, is well worth taking.ģ7. While The Lost Daughter is ultimately hopeful, it does recognize that “…life itself, in the end, a tragic journey…”.
I’ve never read anything by her before this, but I would definitely like to read more of her work. It didn’t really matter whose part of the journey I was following, it was all compelling. Sean’s bewilderment over Brooke’s behaviour and his own disappointments make him a dynamic character, rather than just a foil against which Alex and Brooke’s story plays out. Ferriss’s characters seem like real people. This is a novel that asks you to examine the choices people make, the consequences of those choices and how sometimes life throws you an unexpected curve ball. There are no bad guys in The Lost Daughter. Their reunion causes a ripple effect and sets them both on a path from which there is no turning back. I’m not going to, you know, invade your life or anything,” Alex tells her. “I’d like to see you from time to time…If that’s okay. He’d been living in Japan with his wife and young son, but his life has fallen apart. Every time they talked about another pregnancy it went this way, but he loved her too much to stop. His love for her harbored no doubts, and he had seen the joy she took in Meghan.
Sean doesn’t understand Brook’s reticence and herĮxcuses bewildered him. Brooke is reluctant she has her reasons although it’s difficult for her to articulate them.
Their marriage is solid, but Sean is pressing for another baby in his big Irish Catholic clan, a single child is blasphemy. They have a six-year-old daughter called Meghan. Brooke was bound for Tufts in the fall, and Alex was going off to college on a soccer scholarship.įast forward fifteen years and Brooke is married to Sean. It’s a harrowing beginning to their stories. When the novel opens high school seniors Brooke and Alex have taken refuge in a hotel where Brooke is about to give birth. Am I really interested in life’s ups and downs? Do I care about people’s children and marriages? Well, if every book was as good as this one, the answer would be yes. The whole time I was reading Lucy Ferriss’s novel The Lost Daughter I was trying to figure out whether I liked it – not the book, exactly, the whole family drama thing.
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