The Cavendishes are a wealthy, London based family. Their marriage is dysfunctional, but they plow along. The reader soon learns Laura has suffered two traumas in her life--the death of her beloved cocker spaniel, as a child, and the premature death of the couple's first child, Rose, only days after she was born. So, when she feels granted a second chance, with the birth and life of her son, Daniel, she holds onto him almost as fiercely as Mrs. Bates, in "Psycho." Although this is not apparent on the surface. Nothing is. Which makes this novel so interesting.
Now, contrast this family with the Laines, who live in a town called Croydon, sort of a British Goat Alley!!!!!!!!!!! Wendy, a middle-aged mother, works in a supermarket, and does the best she can. However, her daughter, who calls herself Cherry, though it is never learned what her real name is, resents, like Haley Sadler, on 'SVU,' who she is, and where she comes from. Which she tells her mother to her face! And slaps her! I felt so sad for Wendy.
Cherry manages to talk her way into a posh real estate office near the Cavendish residence. This is not intentional, but when she and Daniel finally cross paths, and sparks fly, everything is intentional on Cherry's part. But her behavior cannot be proven, at least to the characters.
Before one can say "Fatal Attraction," the novel deviates when Laura, the mother, makes a pivotal decision, and everything is turned on its head. This is a page turner that adds a bit of the unpredictable to what is, on the surface, a very predictable story. By the time the climax is reached, who is good or evil becomes blurred.
This was such fun, girls. But, at the end, I felt sorry for son, Daniel.
Though a grown man, and a med student, it looks like he is doomed to play Oedipus to her Jocasta!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chilling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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