Daughters - by Corinne Demas (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

From award-winning author Corinne Demas comes a moving story about the sometimes volatile but ultimately unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters.

When Meredith flies home to New England, daughter Eloise in tow, she leaves her husband and a life back in LA. A heartbreaking loss is killing their marriage. So she looks to her mother and siblings for the support she desperately needs, and the love her daughter surely deserves--two things her husband can't seem to provide.

Meredith's mother, Delia, is thrilled by their sudden arrival at the family farm. But her husband braces for the chaos his stepdaughter and granddaughter will surely bring. Meredith's announcement that she's moved home for good takes the whole family by surprise and turns everything upside down.

While wrestling with her future, artist Meredith is forced to confront her past--and the disappointment she believes her mother, a violin teacher, felt when musically gifted Meredith abandoned the violin.

As Meredith works to repair relationships with members of her family, an old flame turns up and further complicates her life.

Delia, in a desperate attempt to rescue her daughter's marriage, does something unforgivable, and Meredith has to decide if she should uproot Eloise and take off. When Eloise goes missing, help arrives from an unexpected quarter.

Review Quotes

"Daughters works beautifully as a novel, thanks to the author's skill at delineating character and weaving narrative. From the beginning to the end of the novel, Delia, Merry and their family emerge as real people about whom the reader cannot help caring...In short, Demas has created a moving, powerful story." --Daily Hampshire Gazette

"When Demas immerses herself in the world of her characters she lets it all play out--and her readers respond...In real life there is no scripting happy ending. And so, it is the same for Demas's characters. She never lets them off the hook; she makes them work it out. And sometimes readers lend a hand." --MassLive

"Corinne Demas is a master of domestic fiction. Her new novel is a probing portrait of family friction and fulfillment. Once again, an engrossing and illuminating read." --William O'Rourke, Signs of the Literary Times

Praise for books by Corinne Demas

The Road Towards Home

"Both lighthearted and insightful, with age-defying charm and wit...a totally satisfying (and identifiable!) read." --Elinor Lipman, author of Every Tom, Dick & Harry

The Writing Circle

"Memorable characters and elegant prose, The Writing Circle weaves a web that tightens slowly around you as you read until you find you simply can't put it down...A wonderful book, tense, engaging, and highly recommended." --Karen Joy Fowler, author of Booth

The Same River Twice

"Intelligent and graceful, often moving, a book that walks with poise through the mined fields of contemporary marriage, of motherhood and, not least, daughterhood. Corinne Demas is not flamboyant; she is something far more valuable than that: honest, funny, and gravely optimistic in spite of all." --Rosellen Brown, author of The Lake on Fire

Everything I Was

"An authentic portrait of country life, economic stress, and the tensions associated with a major life change...an absorbing coming-of-age tale." --Publishers Weekly

What We Save for Last

"Throughout these bittersweet tales, women's past losses linger as a white noise in the background of otherwise fulfilled lives...these stories make unsettling, poignant reading." --Publishers Weekly