Reading Roisin Meaney's novels is like 'sitting down with a good
friend over a cup of tea' (Irish Mail on Sunday)
It's Una Darling's seventeenth birthday, but nobody feels much like
celebrating. It's been exactly a year since the tragic death of her
father Finn, and the people he left behind have been doing their best to
get on with things. But it hasn't been easy.
Daphne is tired of sadness, of mourning the long life she and her
husband were meant to share, but doesn't quite know how to get past it.
And she can't seem to get through to her stepdaughter -- they barely
speak anymore, so Daphne knows nothing of the unexpected solace Una has
found, or of the risk she's about to take.
When Una fails to appear for a birthday tea with her family, Daphne
suddenly realises how large the distance between them has grown. Will
she be given the chance to make things right?