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The author: Maureen Lee
Place&date of publishing: London 2008
Publisher: Orion Fiction UK
Number of pages: 376 pages
The summary
In the beginning there is a short introduction to get to know the girls a little bit better before the story actually begins. You can read the things that happen to make them go into the large family house called Chestnuts, which belongs to Brodie Logan. Each girl has got her own backgroundstory and futureplans.
As soon as they’re all settled and start their new lifes in the large house, many things happen to them.
When Diana O’Sullivan arrives at Chestnuts, desperately looking for a house to stay, she meets Brodie and these two become inmediately friends. When Diana has brought her things to her new home a woman knocks on the frontdoor. It’s Vanessa Dear. She got a room upstairs and in the beginning, she doesn’t seem that friendly. Brodie and Dianna hardly know anything about her
The third woman is actually still a little girl. The fifteen-year-old Rachel moves into the house with her daughter, who is only 3 months old.
The main characters
Brodie Logan: A married woman over her fourties, leaving her husband Colin for a while because he’s acting like he doesn’t care about his daughters drug problems. Brodie moves into Chestnuts and is looking for her missing, drugaddicted daughter. Brodie hasn’t got any relatives apart from her mother. But her mother is hiding a large family in Ireland. At the end of the book, her daughter has been found and Brodie will be back living with Colin.
Diana O’Sullivan: Di is 25 years old when she arrives at Chestnuts. She’s left home because of this unfriendly girlfriend of her brother. Di has been looking after her brothers since her mother left when Di was 18 years old. Her father left when she was about 9 years old. Di has lost her job at a callcenter and finds a job at the refugeecenter. When 2 girls are desperately on the run for 2 men, Diana rescues them by throwing hot tea in one guys’ face. He becomes blind and the other one wants revanche. One day before she wants to break up the engagement with Leo, she gets overridden by a mysterious black van. Diana dies because of her injuries.
Vanessa Dear: she’s been left at the altar a few months ago and since then she has put on a lot of weight. She’s now fat, depressed and introvert. She doens’t want any contact with her relatives for one whole year to make her mind up. Vanessa wants to fill in her time she has now and she starts painting. She turns out to be a great artist and sells most of her paintings during a exhibition.
Rachel: is a fifteen-year-old mother. She left her parent’s home because they want to let the baby be adopted, but they don’t understand that Rachel wants to keep the baby and want to take care of it. Her boyfriend, Tyler lives in America and sends money to Rachel so she can afford it to live in Chestnuts and be escaped from her parents for a while.
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