The Faraday Girls: A Novel
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From internationally bestselling author Monica McInerney comes a captivating and charming new novel of family secrets, the loyalty of sisters, and the power of redemption.
As a child, Maggie Faraday grew up in a lively, unconventional household with her young mother, four very different aunts, and eccentric grandfather. With her mother often away, her aunts took turns looking after her–until, just weeks before Maggie’s sixth birthday, a shocking event changed everything.
Twenty years later, Maggie is living alone in New York City when she receives a surprise visit from her grandfather Leo, who brings a revelation and a proposition: He’s preparing a special gift for his daughters and needs Maggie’s help. When the Faradays gather from all parts of the world to celebrate Christmas in July–a longstanding tradition–Maggie uncovers unexpected family history and learns that the women she thought she knew so intimately all have something to hide.
Written in McInerney’s trademark warm, heartfelt prose, The Faraday Girls is a sweeping and affecting family saga.
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Monica McInerney. (2008). The Faraday Girls: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group.
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From internationally bestselling author Monica McInerney comes a captivating and charming new novel of family secrets, the loyalty of sisters, and the power of redemption.
As a child, Maggie Faraday grew up in a lively, unconventional household with her young mother, four very different aunts, and eccentric grandfather. With her mother often away, her aunts took turns looking after her–until, just weeks before Maggie’s sixth birthday, a shocking event changed everything.
Twenty years later, Maggie is living alone in New York City when she receives a surprise visit from her grandfather Leo, who brings a revelation and a proposition: He’s preparing a special gift for his daughters and needs Maggie’s help. When the Faradays gather from all parts of the world to celebrate Christmas in July–a longstanding tradition–Maggie uncovers unexpected family history and learns that the women she thought she knew so intimately all have something to hide.
Written in McInerney’s trademark warm, heartfelt prose, The Faraday Girls is a sweeping and affecting family saga. - reviews
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McInerney’s sixth novel depicts the tensions that emerge between five sisters as they struggle to establish their own identities. The book opens in 1979, in Tasmania, Australia, just before the lives of Juliet, Miranda, Eliza, Sadie, Clementine and their father, Leo, are irrevocably altered by 16-year-old Clementine’s announcement that she’s pregnant. The sisters and widower Leo make a pact to raise the child until it begins elementary school. Despite their unyielding love for baby Maggie, the pact is an enduring challenge for the sisters (who range in age from 16 to 23), who each yearn for independence. Leo, however, sees Maggie’s birth as the perfect excuse to keep all his daughters under the same roof. When Maggie is five, one sister’s colossal error in judgment ruptures the tenuous familial bonds. The consequences play out as the novel fast-forwards 20 years, with the family fractured and Maggie living in New York City. McInerney (The Alphabet Sisters
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McInerney's latest novel (after "The Alphabet Sisters") is the saga of the Faraday sisters of Tasmania through 20 years of rough patches and triumphs. Their unconventional household consists of Miranda, Eliza, Sadie, Clementine, widower father Leo, and baby Maggie, unexpectedly born to 16-year-old Clementine. When the sisters rally around to raise Maggie, she quickly becomes the center of the Faraday universe and ends up being one of the wisest characters in the book. McInerney is a talented storyteller, narrating her story with a lightness that does not feel frivolous. Her characters are far from one-dimensional, although in the hands of another author they could have been. The conclusion is particularly satisfying and somewhat unexpected. Overall, a great story and a great read; recommended for all women's fiction collections.Anastasia Diamond-Ortiz, Cleveland P.L.Copyright 2007 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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With the arrival of baby Maggie, the Faraday household increases to six girls and one hapless father, yet there is a seventh Faraday woman whose absence is a keenly felt burden. That Tessa Faraday died too young, leaving her husband to raise their five daughters, was unbearable enough, but when teenage Clementine, the youngest, announces shes pregnant and that she intends to raise the baby with her sisters help, Tessas absence becomes overwhelming. Though they have been locked away since her death, Tessas private diaries prove to be an irresistible lure toSadie, who betrays the family trust by reading them in hopes that their mother, who had achieved iconic status in death, would reveal the secrets of perfect motherhood. What Sadie discovers, however, ends up shattering the family. Decades later, it falls to Maggie to put the Faraday clan back together again. Crossing the globe, from Australia to Manhattan to Dublin, McInerneys bewitching multigenerational saga lavishly and lovingly explores the resiliency and fragility of family bonds.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2007, American Library Association.)
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As a child, Maggie Faraday grew up in a lively, unconventional household with her young mother, four very different aunts, and eccentric grandfather. With her mother often away, her aunts took turns looking after her–until, just weeks before Maggie’s sixth birthday, a shocking event changed everything.
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